IOFormat functionalities, for now, and for the future.

Supported formats

IOFormat contains a base of plugins to handle the most current formats. See Plugins chapter for more details.

Thread safety

Natively, it is not possible to parallelize data access from a same resource. Thus user cannot read and/or write data in a same view (directly coming from IOFormat) without risking causing unpredictable and irreversible side effects. On the other hand, according to each format, making data access thread-safe is possible, but not yet implemented in any plugin.

Nevertheless, IOLink provides a factory to make any ImageView thread-safe by protecting sensitive methods with locks.

Environments

IOFormat is available for following compilers:

• Visual Studio 2017
• Visual Studio 2019
• Ubuntu 20.04 (gcc 9)
• RHEL8 (gcc 8)

Wrapped Langages

IOFormat is wrapped for:

• .NET Standard 2.0
• Python

Here is an array of compatibility for languages:

Some limitations in .NET Core 2.1:

• Any call to IOLink API must be done before using IOFormat. Internal issue which occurs when IOLink library is not found by IOFormat library.
• In command line, with plugins using dynamically-linked thirdparty libraries, path must be manually set to indicate the location of thirdparty libraries.