Re: checking result of SetBranchAddress

Hello,

are there any ideas how to check whether SetBranchAddress() has been successful?

Best regards,
Alexander

Alexander Mann schrieb:
> Hello Rene,
>
> no, it returns the same value before and after the call of
> SetBranchAddress, regardless of the success of SetBranchAddress, i.e. I
> get e.g.
>
> .
> .
> .
> --> StacoMuon_nucone20 before 0x9af93a0
> [ SetBranchAddress is called ]
> --> now is 0x9af93a0
>
> --> StacoMuon_bestMatch before 0x9afb4c8
> [ SetBranchAddress is called ]
> Error in <TTree::SetBranchAddress>: The pointer type give (vector<bool>)
> does not correspond to the class needed (vector<int>) by the branch:
> StacoMuon_bestMatch
> --> now is 0x9afb4c8
> .
> .
> .
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander
>
> Rene Brun schrieb:

>> You can use TBranch::GetAddress. If it returns 0 the SetBranchAddress 
>> was not successful.
>>
>> Rene Brun
>>
>> Alexander Mann wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is there a way to determine whether TTree::SetBranchAddress has been
>>> successful? If I try to call it with the wrong variable type it will
>>> print an error message, which is useless as long as I cannot catch this
>>> error in my code. So is there a way to find out if the command has
>>> been successful?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Alexander Mann
>>>
>>