ni-data-types
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Non-standard data types used by the webcharts team.
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data-types
This repository contains support for non-standard Javascript data types needed for engineering and scientific applications.
Data Types
NIType
Contains all the information needed to fully describe a NIType, as as an API to retrieve the information. It can be constructed from a JSON encoded string or a full notation object.
var booleanType = new NIType('"Boolean"'); // A single boolean.
var arrayType = new NIType({name: 'Array', rank: 1, subtype:{name: 'Boolean'}}); // 1-D array of booleans.
var arraySubtype = arrayType.getSubtype(); // An instance of NIType
console.log(arraySubtype.isBoolean()); // true
console.log(booleanType.isBoolean()); // true
console.log(booleanType.equals(arraySubtype)); // true
console.log(booleanType.equals(arrayType)); // false
For more information, you can look at the docs of NIType.
NIComplex. Complex numbers for high performance applications
Can be constructed from a string representing
- complex numbers with real part before imaginary part or imaginary part before real part
- complex numbers represented with scientific notation
- complex numbers whose real and/or imaginary parts contain metric (SI) prefixes, such as kilo (k) or mega (M).
- complex numbers with only real or imaginary part
- complex numbers containing NaN as imaginary part, real part, or both
- +/-infinity, +/-inf, +/-Infinity, +/-Inf
- complex numbers that have the imaginary part represented only as +/-i or i
Can be constructed from numbers
- first paramater value is used for the real part and the second one for the imaginary part
It throw errors for any type of invalid input
var complex = new NIComplex('1 + 2i');
var complex1 = new NIComplex(1, 2);
var complex2 = new NIComplex(1);
var wrongComplex = new NIComplex('not a number'); // will throw
Complex numbers are objects containing two IEEE754 numbers, realPart and imaginaryPart.
var complex = new NIComplex('1 + 2i');
var re = complex.realPart;
var im = complex.imaginaryPart;
NITimestamp. High precision timestamps
A NITimestamp is a data structure used to represent time with the high precision needed by scientific and engineering applications. An NITimestamp is composed by a pair of:
- seconds, a integer number representing seconds passed since the epoch
- fractions, an integer number between 0 and 252 - 1 representing the fractions of seconds in the timestamp. A fraction is one second divided by 252.
The main design goals of the NITimestamp is interoperability with LabVIEW Timestamp, and as a consequence:
- the epoch used in NITimestamps is the LabVIEW epoch (1 January 1904).
- the serialization format of the NITimestamp is using Int64, UInt64
Usage
var timestamp = new NITimestamp(); // the epoch
var timestamp2 = new NITimestamp('0:0'); // the epoch
var timestamp3 = new NITimestamp(new Date(Date.now())); // current time
var timestamp4 = new NITimestamp(35.27); // 35.27 seconds past the epoch
var timestamp5 = new NITimestamp(timestamp); // copy a timestamp
The NITimestamp constructor can be called with no parameters or with different types of parameters:
- a string in the format "123:567890" where
- the first part is an INT64 serialized to a decimal string, representing the nr. of seconds relative to epoch
- the second part is a UINT64 serialized to a decimal string, representing the fractional part of the seconds
- a javascript Date
- a Number, representing the seconds passed since the epoch
- a NITimestamp.
NIAnalogWaveform. A waveform of analog data samples
A NIAnalogWaveform represents a series of analog data samples. The main use case for it is for samples acquired periodically with a constant time interval between them.
NIColorValueConverters. Converters for several color formats
A NIColorValueConverters has static functions that allow conversion between formats like RGBA, ARGB and hexadecimal.
Usage
var integerColor = window.NIColorValueConverters.rgbaToInteger('rgb(237, 12, 140, 1)'); // Returns 4281020467
var hexColor = window.NIColorValueConverters.argbIntegerColorToRgbaHexColor(integerColor); // Returns "#ED0C8CFF"