Software for deciphering proprietary binary data-files | Developer notes

⚠️ Users: all documentation can be found at github-pages

This page / area is for developers and contains some helpful information for them

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Contributors

• Steffen Brinckmann (IEK-2, FZJ) [Principal investigator]
• Volker Hofmann (IAS-9 and HMC, FZJ)
• Fiona D'Mello (IAS-9 and HMC, FZJ)

Documentation

Backend

• Can be found within the 'pymarble/' directory.
• Entry point is the main function in cli.py file within 'pymarble/'

Frontend

• Can be found within the 'pymarble/GUI' directory.
• Entry point is the main function in gui.py file

Tests / User-cases

• All testing related files can be found under the 'tests/' folder
• testBackend.sh tests all tutorials
• tutorials are for human reading as well as automatic testing
  • backendTutorial python implementation of a typical run
• Three example files are supplied

Steps for publishing code

pylint pymarble/*
mypy pymarble/
make -C docs html

tests/testBackend.sh

Create code coverage

coverage erase; coverage run --source pymarble -m pytest tests; coverage html
firefox htmlcov/index.html
rm -r htmlcov

For documentation: creating images / videos

• gui.py set fixed size
• change monitor settings to 1280,720

Test code with python only

from pymarble.file import BinaryFile
bf = BinaryFile('tests/examples/1-11-OA_0000.emi')
bf.loadTags()
bf.automatic(methodOrder='i', start=814)
methods = bf.automatic(methodOrder='_', getMethods=True)
bf.printList()
bf.printList(True)

Python data-types and their byteSize

This table is helpful for developers to quickly find byte-lengths

Format	C Type	Python type	Standard size
x	pad byte	no value
c	char	bytes of length 1	1
b	signed char	integer	1
B	unsigned char	integer	1
?	_Bool	bool	1
h	short	integer	2
H	unsigned short	integer	2
i	int	integer	4
I	unsigned int	integer	4
l	long	integer	4 -not helpful
L	unsigned long	integer	4 -not helpful
q	long long	integer	8
Q	unsigned long long	integer	8
n	ssize_t	integer
N	size_t	integer
e		float	2
f	float	float	4
d	double	float	8
s	char[]	bytes
p	char[]	bytes
P	void*	integer