df018_customActions.C File Reference

Detailed Description

Implement a custom action to fill THns.

This tutorial shows how to implement a custom action. As an example, we build a helper for filling THns.

 
// This is a custom action which respects a well defined interface. It supports parallelism,
// in the sense that it behaves correctly if implicit multi threading is enabled.
// We template it on:
// - The type of the internal THnT(s)
// - The dimension of the internal THnT(s)
// Note the plural: in presence of a MT execution, internally more than a single THnT is created.
template <typename T, unsigned int NDIM>
class THnHelper : public ROOT::Detail::RDF::RActionImpl<THnHelper<T, NDIM>> {
public:
   /// This is a handy, expressive shortcut.
   using THn_t = THnT<T>;
   /// This type is a requirement for every helper.
   using Result_t = THn_t;
 
private:
   std::vector<std::shared_ptr<THn_t>> fHistos; // one per data processing slot
 
public:
   /// This constructor takes all the parameters necessary to build the THnTs. In addition, it requires the names of
   /// the columns which will be used.
   THnHelper(std::string_view name, std::string_view title, std::array<int, NDIM> nbins, std::array<double, NDIM> xmins,
             std::array<double, NDIM> xmax)
   {
      const auto nSlots = ROOT::IsImplicitMTEnabled() ? ROOT::GetThreadPoolSize() : 1;
      for (auto i : ROOT::TSeqU(nSlots)) {
         fHistos.emplace_back(std::make_shared<THn_t>(std::string(name).c_str(), std::string(title).c_str(),
                                                      NDIM, nbins.data(), xmins.data(), xmax.data()));
         (void)i;
      }
   }
   THnHelper(THnHelper &&) = default;
   THnHelper(const THnHelper &) = delete;
   std::shared_ptr<THn_t> GetResultPtr() const { return fHistos[0]; }
   void Initialize() {}
   void InitTask(TTreeReader *, unsigned int) {}
   /// This is a method executed at every entry
   template <typename... ColumnTypes>
   void Exec(unsigned int slot, ColumnTypes... values)
   {
      // Since THnT<T>::Fill expects a double*, we build it passing through a std::array.
      std::array<double, sizeof...(ColumnTypes)> valuesArr{static_cast<double>(values)...};
      fHistos[slot]->Fill(valuesArr.data());
   }
   /// This method is called at the end of the event loop. It is used to merge all the internal THnTs which
   /// were used in each of the data processing slots.
   void Finalize()
   {
      auto &res = fHistos[0];
      for (auto slot : ROOT::TSeqU(1, fHistos.size())) {
         res->Add(fHistos[slot].get());
      }
   }
 
   std::string GetActionName(){
      return "THnHelper";
   }
};
 
void df018_customActions()
{
   // We enable implicit parallelism
   ROOT::EnableImplicitMT();
 
   // We create an empty RDataFrame which contains 4 columns filled with random numbers.
   // The type of the numbers held by the columns are: double, double, float, int.
   ROOT::RDataFrame d(128);
   auto genD = []() { return gRandom->Uniform(-5, 5); };
   auto genF = [&genD]() { return (float)genD(); };
   auto genI = [&genD]() { return (int)genD(); };
   auto dd = d.Define("x0", genD).Define("x1", genD).Define("x2", genF).Define("x3", genI);
 
   // Our Helper type: templated on the internal THnT type, the size, the types of the columns
   // we'll use to fill.
   using Helper_t = THnHelper<float, 4>;
 
   Helper_t helper{"myThN",                          // Name
                   "A THn with 4 dimensions",        // Title
                   {4, 4, 8, 2},                     // NBins
                   {-10., -10, -4., -6.},            // Axes min values
                   {10., 10, 5., 7.}};               // Axes max values
 
   // We book the action: it will be treated during the event loop.
   auto myTHnT = dd.Book<double, double, float, int>(std::move(helper), {"x0", "x1", "x2", "x3"});
 
   myTHnT->Print();
}

 
THnT<float> (*0x81c0450): "myThN" "A THn with 4 dimensions"
  4 dimensions, 128 entries in 1440 filled bins

Date

April 2018

Authors

Enrico Guiraud, Danilo Piparo (CERN)

Definition in file df018_customActions.C.