TIleDB backend to save/load Armadillo objects

quickstart_example.cc

/**
 * @file   quickstart_dense.cc
 *
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 * @section DESCRIPTION
 *
 * This is a part of the TileDB quickstart tutorial:
 *   https://docs.tiledb.io/en/latest/tutorials/quickstart.html
 *
 * When run, this program will create a simple 2D dense array, write some data
 * to it, and read a slice of the data back.
 *
 */

#include <iostream>
#include <tiledb/tiledb>
#include <armadillo>

using namespace tiledb;

// Name of array.
std::string array_name("quickstart_dense_array");

void create_array() {
  // Create a TileDB context.
  Context ctx;

  // The array will be 4x4 with dimensions "rows" and "cols", with domain [1,4].
  Domain domain(ctx);
  domain.add_dimension(Dimension::create<int>(ctx, "rows", {{1, 4}}, 4))
      .add_dimension(Dimension::create<int>(ctx, "cols", {{1, 4}}, 4));

  // The array will be dense.
  ArraySchema schema(ctx, TILEDB_DENSE);
  schema.set_domain(domain).set_order({{TILEDB_ROW_MAJOR, TILEDB_ROW_MAJOR}});

  // Add a single attribute "a" so each (i,j) cell can store an integer.
  schema.add_attribute(Attribute::create<double>(ctx, "a"));

  // Create the (empty) array on disk.
  Array::create(array_name, schema);
}

void write_array() {
  Context ctx;

  // Prepare some data for the array
  arma::vec armavec = {
      1., 2., 3., 4., 5., 6., 7., 8., 9., 10., 11., 12., 13., 14., 15., 16.};

  // Open the array for writing and create the query.
  Array array(ctx, array_name, TILEDB_WRITE);
  Query query(ctx, array, TILEDB_WRITE);
  query.set_layout(TILEDB_ROW_MAJOR)
       .set_buffer("a", armavec.memptr(), armavec.n_elem);

  // Perform the write and close the array.
  query.submit();
  array.close();
}

void read_array() {
  Context ctx;

  // Prepare the array for reading
  Array array(ctx, array_name, TILEDB_READ);

  // Slice only rows 1, 2 and cols 2, 3, 4
  const std::vector<int> subarray = {1, 2, 2, 4};

  // Prepare the vector that will hold the result (of size 6 elements)
  arma::vec armavec(6);

  // Prepare the query
  Query query(ctx, array, TILEDB_READ);
  query.set_subarray(subarray)
      .set_layout(TILEDB_ROW_MAJOR)
      .set_buffer("a", armavec.memptr(), armavec.n_elem);

  // Submit the query and close the array.
  query.submit();
  array.close();

  armavec.print();
}

int main() {
  Context ctx;

  if (Object::object(ctx, array_name).type() != Object::Type::Array) {
    create_array();
    write_array();
  }

  read_array();
  return 0;
}