Use the Hydrate static function method to create the object from its dehydrated form. The dehydrated form consists of a hash containing the object's properties and values. The Hydrate and Dehydrate methods let you store the object state in memory and restore it later.

Representing an object as a hash is necessary for running ENVI analytics with the ENVI Task Engine and the ENVI Services Engine.

Use the ENVIHydrate function (documented in ENVI Help) if you are creating a general IDL routine that will restore multiple object types.

This method is part of ENVI Deep Learning, which requires a separate license and installation.

Example

Sample data files are available on our ENVI Tutorials web page. Click the "Deep Learning" link in the ENVI Tutorial Data section to download a .zip file containing the data. Extract the contents to a local directory.

; Launch the application
e = ENVI(/HEADLESS)
 
; Update the following line with the correct path
; to the tutorial data files
File = 'C:\MyTutorialFiles\OaklandPortOrthophoto1.dat'
Raster = ENVIDeepLearningRaster(File)
 
; Retrieve the dehydrated hash
dehydratedForm = Raster.Dehydrate()
Raster.Close
 
; Restore the object
newRaster = ENVIDeepLearningRaster.Hydrate(dehydratedForm)
Print, newRaster, /IMPLIED_PRINT

Syntax

Result = ENVIDeepLearningRaster.Hydrate(DehydratedForm, ERROR=value)

Return Value

The result is a reference to a new object instance of this virtual raster class.

Arguments

DehydratedForm

Key

Description

factory

Required. A string value of URLRaster indicating what object type the hash represents.
auxiliary_url A string array containing the URLs for any auxiliary files associated with the raster file. This key is generated on output if auxiliary files exist. On input this key is ignored to allow ENVIURLRaster to override various behaviors.

data_ignore_value

A scalar numeric value that masks out any pixels matching the value. Example:

"data_ignore_value" : -9999

dataset_index

A scalar integer value that is the zero-based index of the raster to load from a container format consisting of multiple rasters. Example:

"dataset_index" : 1

dataset_name

A case-sensitive scalar string that identifies which raster to load from a container format consisting of multiple rasters. Example:

"dataset_name" : "cirrus"

format

A scalar string that specifies the format of the raster. Known native values will be ignored, known external formats will force the loading of the raster according to the given format, and unknown formats will be treated as the name of the custom read procedure. Example:

"format" : "alos"

interleave

A case-insensitive string used in conjuction with dataset_name to indicate how to interpret 3D pixel arrays. Specify bsq, bil, or bip. If not specified, then bsq is the default. Example:

  "interleave" : "bip"

metadata_override

The hash representation of an ENVIRasterMetadata object. Example:

"metadata_override" : {
   "factory": "RasterMetadata",
   "WAVELENGTH": [485.00000000000000, 
      560.00000000000000, 660.00000000000000, 
      830.00000000000000],
   "WAVELENGTH UNITS": "Nanometers",
   "SENSOR TYPE": "QuickBird",
   "BAND NAMES": ["Band 1", "Band 2", "Band 3", "Band 4"]
}

password

A scalar string to use when opening a remote dataset that requires authentication. For security reasons, this is not included in the hash returned from the Dehydrate method, but you can manually add it before the hash is passed into ENVIHydrate.

prompt_user

A Boolean value that instructs the system to prompt the user with interactive dialogs when opening the raster. This is not included in the hash returned from the Dehydrate method since it is not compatible with batch-mode processing, but you can manually add it before the hash is passed into ENVIHydrate.

spatialref_override

The hash representation of a spatial reference of type ENVIStandardRasterSpatialRef, ENVIPseudoRasterSpatialRef or ENVIRPCRasterSpatialRef. Example:

"spatialref_override" : {
   "factory": "StandardRasterSpatialRef",
   "rotation": 0.00000000,
   "tie_point_pixel": [0.00000000, 0.00000000],
   "coord_sys_code": 32611,
   "pixel_size": [30.000000, 30.000000],
   "tie_point_map": [493785.00, 4899315.0]
}

template

Scalar string with the name of a custom XML file to use when opening a HDF5 file. Example:

"template" : "/usr/local/harris/envi/data/my_template.xml"

time_override

The hash representation of an ENVITime object. Example:

"time_override" : {
   "acquisition": "2015-10-30T16:05:32.3258314Z",
   "factory": "Time"
}

url

Required. A scalar string with the local filename or URI to a remote data source. Example:

"url" : "/usr/local/harris/envi/data/qb_boulder_msi"

username

A scalar string to use when opening a remote dataset that requires authentication. For security reasons, this is not included in the hash returned from the Dehydrate method, but you can manually add it before the hash is passed into ENVIHydrate.

uvalue

Any data type is allowed. This key is used when format is not a known native or external type but specifies a custom read procedure. The uvalue is passed into that procedure's UVALUE keyword, if it exists. Example:

"uvalue" : 3.14159

Keywords

ERROR

Set this keyword to a named variable that will contain any error message issued during execution of this routine. If no error occurs, the ERROR variable will be set to a null string (''). If an error occurs and the routine is a function, then the function result will be undefined.

When this keyword is not set and an error occurs, ENVI returns to the caller and execution halts. In this case, the error message is contained within !ERROR_STATE and can be caught using IDL's CATCH routine. See IDL Help for more information on !ERROR_STATE and CATCH.

See the Manage Errors topic in ENVI Help for more information on error handling.

Version History

Deep Learning 1.0

Introduced

See Also

ENVIDeepLearningRaster