uk.ac.starlink.fits (Starlink-UK API)

Interface Summary
Interface	Description
BasicInput	Interface defining the basic data input operations required for the FITS reading classes.
CardFactory.Config	CardFactory configuration.
FitsTableSerializer	Defines an object which can serialize a table to a FITS HDU.
FitsTableSerializerConfig	Aggregates configuration options for FITS table serialization.
WideFits	Defines a convention for storing extended column data in a FITS BINTABLE extension.

Class Summary
Class	Description
AbstractFitsTableWriter	Abstract table writer superclass designed for writing FITS tables.
AbstractWideFits	Implementations of the WideFits interface.
AsciiTableStarTable	StarTable implementation for FITS (ASCII) TABLE extensions.
BasicInputThreadLocal	ThreadLocal based on an InputFactory.
BintableColumnHeader	Understands how per-column metadata is stored in the headers of a FITS BINTABLE extension.
BintableStarTable	An implementation of the StarTable interface which uses a FITS BINTABLE extension.
BlockInput	Partial random-access BasicInput implementation based on a set of ByteBuffers.
BlockManager	Manages access to a region of a file in blocks using multiple BufferManagers to cover it.
BlockMappedInput	Random-access BasicInput implementation that maps a given region of a file as a number of byte buffers.
BufferedRandomInput	BasicInput implementation based on a RandomAccessFile.
BufferManager	Manages access to a region of a file using monolithic byte buffers.
ByteBufferInput	Random-access BasicInput implementation based on a ByteBuffer.
CardFactory	Creates FITS CardImages suitable for writing to a FITS header.
CardImage	Represents a FITS header card that will be written.
CardType<T>	Defines different types of FITS header card.
ColFitsStarTable	StarTable based on a single-row FITS BINTABLE which contains the data for an entire column in each cell of the table.
ColFitsTableBuilder	Implementation of the `TableBuilder` interface which reads tables stored in column-oriented FITS binary table format.
ColFitsTableSerializer	Object which can serialize a StarTable to a data stream as a one-row FITS file in which each element contains an entire column of the table.
ColFitsTableWriter	Deprecated Use `uk.ac.starlink.votable.UnifiedFitsTableWriter` instead
FitsHeader	Represents the header part of a FITS HDU that has been read.
FitsTableBuilder	Implementation of the `TableBuilder` interface which gets `StarTable`s from FITS files.
FitsTableWriter	Handles writing of a StarTable in FITS binary format.
FitsTableWriter.PrimaryType	Characterises the type of Primary HDU that will precede table extensions written by this writer.
FitsUtil	Utilities for working with FITS files.
HduFitsTableWriter	Deprecated Use `uk.ac.starlink.votable.UnifiedFitsTableWriter` instead
HealpixFitsTableWriter	TableWriter implementation that writes FITS files using the HEALPix-FITS convention.
InputFactory	Represents a sequence of bytes, and can create BasicInput objects to read it.
MultiByteBufferInput	Random-access BasicInput implementation based on a supplied array of byte buffers.
ParsedCard<T>	Represents a single parsed FITS header card.
SimpleMappedInput	Random-access BasicInput implementation based on a single byte buffer.
StandardFitsTableSerializer	Class which knows how to do the various bits of serializing a StarTable to FITS BINTABLE format.
Unmapper	Attempts to free resources from a MappedByteBuffer.
VariableFitsTableSerializer	FitsTableSerializer which can write variable array-valued columns using the 'P' or 'Q' TFORM formatting characters.
VariableFitsTableWriter	Deprecated Use `uk.ac.starlink.votable.UnifiedFitsTableWriter` instead

Enum Summary
Enum Description

FitsTableWriter.VarArrayMode
Enumeration for variable-length array value storage options.
Exception Summary
Exception Description

HeaderValueException
Indicates a problem with a FITS header card.

Enum Summary
Enum	Description
FitsTableWriter.VarArrayMode	Enumeration for variable-length array value storage options.

Exception Summary
Exception	Description
HeaderValueException	Indicates a problem with a FITS header card.

Package uk.ac.starlink.fits Description

Classes for general FITS handling, including NDX, NDArray and StarTable implementations. Some of these classes use the nom.tam.fits package for low-level FITS access, though several of them do most of the handling in customised ways themselves for efficiency reasons.