[clam-devel] CrossCorrelation visibility

[Pau Arumí]

El dg 22 de 05 de 2011 a les 05:52 +0200, en/na Nathan Stewart va
escriure:
> I finally uncovered
> CLAM/plugins/spacialization/src/CrossCorrelation.{hxx,cxx} - and I'm a
> bit puzzled that not only is this buried, but the use of the namespace
> 'Hidden' suggests it was done so on purpose.  More importantly, it's
> not installed with the other headers. I'm actually looking to run
> cross correlation on spectra, and I believe a 512 point spectrum will
> adequately handle my needs - so I don't know if doing it in the
> frequency domain is still more efficient.


Hi Nathan,
the code you see like this one

namespace Hidden
{
        static const char* metadata[] = {
                "key", "CrossCorrelation",
                "category", "[plugin] New Spectral Processing",
                "description", "CrossCorrelation",
                0
        };
        static FactoryRegistrator<ProcessingFactory, CrossCorrelation>
        reg = metadata;
}

is a C++ idiom. The intention of this code is not to provide a public
interface but to automatically set up things (register processing
creator method and metadata) at load time. Hence the namespace Hidden.

> Is there any chance this could be moved into the installed headers for
> CLAM, or are there reasons for not doing so?

Well it is just that the authors use this as a clam processings plugin,
not as a library to link external code against it.

Best,
Pau