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ndi_document_element_epoch (ndi.document class)

Class definition

Class name: ndi_document_element_epoch
Short name: ndi_document_element_epoch
Superclasses: ndi_document_binaryseries, ndi_document, ndi_document_epochid

Definition: $NDIDOCUMENTPATH/ndi_document_element_epoch.json
Schema for validation: $NDISCHEMAPATH/ndi_document_element_epoch_schema.json
Property_list_name: element_epoch
Class_version: 1

ndi_document_element_epoch fields

Accessed by element_epoch.field where field is one of the field names below

field default_value data type description
depends_on - structure Each document that this document depends on is listed; its document ID is given by the value, and the name indicates the type of dependency that exists. Note that the index for each dependency in the list below is arbitrary and can change. Use ndi.document methods dependency, dependency_value,add_dependency_value_n,dependency_value_n,remove_dependency_value_n, and set_dependency_value to read and edit depends_on fields of an ndi.document.
depends_on: element_id
epoch_clock 'dev_local_time' character array (ASCII) The clock type (of the ndi.time.clocktype object) that describes this epoch.
t0_t1 [0 1] 1x2 float The start time and the stop time of this epoch, in time units of the epoch_clock.

ndi_document_binaryseries fields

Accessed by binary_series_parameters.field where field is one of the field names below

field default_value data type description
time_size 1 Integer array [n m] Number of independent variable entries (often time)
time_type character array (ASCII) Type of the time variable ('float64', 'uint32', etc) (note: make better)
data_size 1 Integer array [n m] Number of data entries)
data_type character array (ASCII) Type of the time variable ('float64', 'uint32', etc) (note: make better)
data_dim 1 Integer array [n m] Dimensions of each data series
samples_regular_intervals 1 Integer (0 or 1) is the data always sampled at regular intervals?

ndi_document fields

Accessed by ndi_document.field where field is one of the field names below

field default_value data type description
session_id - NDI ID string The globally unique identifier of any data session that produced this document
id - NDI ID string The globally unique identifier of this document
name character array (ASCII) A user-specified name, free for users/developers to use as they like
type character array (ASCII) A user-specified type, free for users/developers to use as they like (deprecated, will be removed)
datestamp (current time) ISO-8601 date string, time zone must be UTC leap seconds Time of document creation
database_version - character array (ASCII) Version of this document in the database

ndi_document_epochid fields

Accessed by epochid_fix.field where field is one of the field names below

field default_value data type description
epochid character array (ASCII) The epoch id that is referred to