Developer guide

This section describes the dlis-writer implementation in more detail. The different types of logical records are explained. Further, the principles of converting the Python objects to DLIS-compliant bytes are described.

• Logical Records and Visible Records
• Logical Record types
  • Overview of Logical Record types
    • Logical Record types diagram
  • Storage Unit Label
  • IFLR objects
    • Frame Data
    • No-Format Frame Data
    • IFLRs’ relations to EFLRs
  • EFLR objects
    • EFLRSet and EFLRItem
    • Implemented EFLR objects
    • Relations between EFLR objects
• DLIS Attributes
  • The Attribute class
  • Attribute subtypes
• Writing the binary file
  • DLISFile object
  • Ways of passing data
  • DLISWriter and auxiliary objects
  • Converting objects and attributes to bytes