[ROOT] Re: filter out the chain

From: Dmitriy Bandourine (bandurin@fnal.gov)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 17:52:21 MET


Thank you Rene!

With your changes ew tree was created and written to the file "small.root"
But when I tried to read this tree in new session, I got:
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Error in <TFile::ReadBuffer>: error reading all requested bytes from file  small.root, got 0 of 26444
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When I clicked on some leaf in one of braches of the tree in "small.root", I got
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root [2] <TCanvas::MakeDefCanvas>: created default TCanvas with name c1
Error in <TFile::ReadBuffer>: error reading all requested bytes from file small.root, got 0 of 26444
C++ runtime abort: terminate() called by the exception handling mechanism.
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I expect that the size of the created "small.root" file  should be at
least 5-6 times larger than it is.


 - Dmitriy - 

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Rene Brun wrote:

> Hi Dmitriy,
> 
> TTree::CloneTree returns a clone of the original object. In case of a TChain,
> CloneTree returns a TChain*. You cannot fill a TChain, only a TTree.
> I suggest the following changes in your code:
> 
> 
> void filter()
> {
> TChain *chain = new TChain("Global");
> chain->Add("file1.root");
> chain->Add("file2.root");
> chain->Add("file3.root"); 
> 
>   cout << " Creating new root-file ..."<< endl;
>   TFile *newFile = new TFile("small.root","recreate");
>   cout << " Creating new tree ..."<< endl;
>   TChain *newchain = (TChain*)chain->CloneTree(0); //<====
>   TTree *tree = newchain->GetTree(); //<=====
> 
>   if (fChain == 0) return;
>   Int_t nentries = Int_t(fChain->GetEntries());
> 
>   Int_t nbytes = 0, nb = 0;
>   for (Int_t jentry=0; jentry<nentries;jentry++) {
>      Int_t ientry = LoadTree(jentry); //in case of a TChain, 
>      nb = fChain->GetEntry(jentry);   nbytes += nb;
> 
>     if ( SelectionFunction() ) tree->Fill();
>   
>   }// end loop over events
> 
>   newFile->cd();
>   tree->Write();
> }
> 
> Rene Brun
> 
> Dmitriy Bandourine wrote:
> > 
> > Hi rooters,
> > 
> > I need to filter out the events containing in the chain
> > of root-files using some function INSIDE the loop over events
> > and then save them in new tree with analogous branch structure.
> > The method with
> > TTree *tree = chain.CloneTree(Tcut);
> > does not suit me because, as mentioned above, I need to use a
> > selection function, which return value depends on the event parameters.
> > 
> > My script looks like this:
> > #===========================================
> > void filter()
> > {
> > TChain *chain = new TChain("Global");
> > chain->Add("file1.root");
> > chain->Add("file2.root");
> > chain->Add("file3.root");
> > 
> >   cout << " Creating new root-file ..."<< endl;
> >   TFile *newFile = new TFile("small.root","recreate");
> >   cout << " Creating new tree ..."<< endl;
> >   TTree *tree = chain.CloneTree(0);
> > 
> >   if (fChain == 0) return;
> >   Int_t nentries = Int_t(fChain->GetEntries());
> > 
> >   Int_t nbytes = 0, nb = 0;
> >   for (Int_t jentry=0; jentry<nentries;jentry++) {
> >      Int_t ientry = LoadTree(jentry); //in case of a TChain,
> >      nb = fChain->GetEntry(jentry);   nbytes += nb;
> > 
> >     if ( SelectionFunction() ) tree->Fill();
> > 
> >   }// end loop over events
> > 
> >   newFile->cd();
> >   tree->Write();
> > }
> > #==============================================
> > 
> > For 3.01.06 in this case I get:
> > Warning in <TChain::Fill()>: may not use this method
> > and nothing written to "tree".
> > For 3.02.07 I get:
> > *** Break *** segmentation violation
> > 
> > How to initialize properly "tree"?
> > Obviously, the string:
> >  TTree *tree = chain.CloneTree(0);
> > does not help
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dmitri
> 



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