C++ Tutorial

This short tutorial provides C++ examples that demonstrate the Conduit’s Core API. Conduit’s unit tests (src/tests/{library_name}/) also provide a rich set of examples for Conduit’s Core API and additional libraries. Ascent’s Tutorial also provides a brief intro to Conduit basics with C++ and Python examples.

• Basic Concepts
  • Node basics
  • Bitwidth Style Types
  • Compatible Schemas
  • Node References
  • const Nodes
• Accessing Numeric Data
  • Accessing Scalars
  • Accessing Arrays
  • Using Introspection and Conversion
  • C++11 Initializer Lists
• Reading YAML and JSON Strings
  • Parsing text with Node::parse()
• Generators
  • Using Generator instances
  • Compacting Nodes
• Data Ownership
  • set vs set_external
• Node Update Methods
• Node Move and Swap
• String Formatting Helpers
  • fmt
  • conduit::utils::format
    • conduit::utils::format(string, args)
    • conduit::utils::format(string, maps, map_index)
• Error Handling
  • Default Error Handlers
  • Using Custom Error Handlers
  • Using Restoring Default Handlers
  • Accessing Current Handlers
• Debugger Integration
  • MS Visual Studio
  • Totalview
  • GDB