Class lsst::afw::table::io::Persistable

class Persistable

A base class for objects that can be persisted via afw::table::io Archive classes.

Inheriting from Persistable provides a public API for reading/writing individual objects to FITS that is fully defined in the base class, with derived classes only needing to implement persistence to catalogs. It is expected that objects that contain multiple persistables (such as Exposures) will create their own InputArchives and OutputArchives, and use these to avoid writing the same object twice (which would otherwise be a big concern for future objects like ExposureCatalog and CoaddPsf).

Generally speaking, an abstract base class that inherits from Persistable should also inherit from PersistableFacade<Base>. A concrete class that inherits (possibly indirectly) from Persistable should inherit from PersistableFacade<Derived> (though this just provides a slightly nicer interface to users), implement isPersistable(), getPersistenceName(), getPythonModule(), and write(), and define a subclass of PersistenceFactory. Inheritance from PersistableFacade should always precede inheritance from Persistable.

Persistable has no pure virtual member functions, and instead contains a default implementation that throws LogicError when the user attempts to save an object for which persistence has not actually been implemented.

Subclassed by lsst::afw::math::Function< Kernel::Pixel >, lsst::afw::cameraGeom::DetectorCollection, lsst::afw::cameraGeom::TransformMap, lsst::afw::detection::Footprint, lsst::afw::geom::Transform< FromEndpoint, ToEndpoint >, lsst::afw::math::BoundedField, lsst::afw::math::Function< ReturnT >, lsst::afw::math::Kernel, lsst::meas::modelfit::Mixture, lsst::afw::geom::Transform< afw::geom::Point2Endpoint, afw::geom::GenericEndpoint >