Core Structures and Base Classes (core)

Introduction

The ctapipe.core module contains base classes the provide developers with the core functionality to implement an application that processes data.

Container provides a common data class, Component lets one define a module (worker, maker, etc.) for a particular algorithm along with its user-editable configuration parameters, and Tool defines a command-line application, complete with configuration file or command-line parameter processing, and logging setup. In the future this will also handle provenance metadata.

All ctapipe applications should derive from these classes in order to provide a common interface and to make use of the configuration system.

For details about creating command-line tools, see Command-line Tools (tools)

The following shows the conceptual difference between Tools and Components with overall pipelines and stages. Serialization and Deserialization are simply specialized Components that perform data access.

• Traitlet Implementations for ctapipe

Reference/API

ctapipe.core Package

Core functionality of ctapipe

Functions

non_abstract_children(base)	Return all non-abstract subclasses of a base class recursively.
get_module_version(name)	Get the version of a python module, something you can import.
run_tool(tool[, argv, cwd, raises])	Utility run a certain tool in a python session without exiting.

Classes

Component(**kwargs)	Base class of all Components.
TelescopeComponent(**kwargs)	A component that needs a SubarrayDescription to be constructed, and which contains configurable TelescopeParameter fields that must be configured on construction.
Container([prefix])	Generic class that can hold and accumulate data to be passed
Tool(**kwargs)	A base class for all executable tools (applications) that handles configuration loading/saving, logging, command-line processing, and provenance meta-data handling.
Field([default, description, unit, ucd, ...])	Class for storing data in a Container.
FeatureGenerator(**kwargs)	Generate features for astropy.table.Table.
DeprecatedField(default[, description, ...])	used to mark which fields may be removed in next version
Map	A dictionary of sub-containers that can be added to a Container.
Provenance(*args, **kw)	Manage the provenance info for a stack of activities
ToolConfigurationError(message)
QualityQuery(**kwargs)	Manages a set of user-configurable (at runtime or in a config file) selection criteria that operate on the same type of input.
QualityCriteriaError	Signal a problem with a user-defined selection criteria function
FieldValidationError

ctapipe.core.component Module

Class to handle configuration for algorithms

Functions

non_abstract_children(base)

Return all non-abstract subclasses of a base class recursively.

Classes

Component(**kwargs)

Base class of all Components.

ctapipe.core.telescope_component Module

This module defines classes to enable per-telescope configuration of trait values

Classes

TelescopeComponent(**kwargs)	A component that needs a SubarrayDescription to be constructed, and which contains configurable TelescopeParameter fields that must be configured on construction.
TelescopeParameter(trait[, default_value])	Allow a parameter value to be specified as a simple value (of type dtype), or as a list of patterns that match different telescopes.
TelescopeParameterLookup(...)
TelescopePatternList(*args)	Representation for a list of telescope pattern tuples.

ctapipe.core.tool Module

Classes to handle configurable command-line user interfaces.

Classes

Tool(**kwargs)	A base class for all executable tools (applications) that handles configuration loading/saving, logging, command-line processing, and provenance meta-data handling.
ToolConfigurationError(message)

ctapipe.core.container Module

Classes

Container([prefix])	Generic class that can hold and accumulate data to be passed
Field([default, description, unit, ucd, ...])	Class for storing data in a Container.
FieldValidationError
Map	A dictionary of sub-containers that can be added to a Container.