<h2>org.autoplot.cdf.CdfDataSourceFormat</h2><p>Format the QDataSet into CDF tables, using Nand Lal's library.
 Datasets will be assigned names if they don't have a NAME property.
 If the append=T parameter is set, then variables should have names.
 if the bundle=T parameter is set, then bundles should be unbundled into separate variables.</p>
<h2>CdfDataSourceFormat( )</h2>
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<h2>canFormat</h2>
canFormat( <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/das2/qds/QDataSet.html'>QDataSet</a> ds ) &rarr; boolean

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<h3>Parameters</h3>
ds - a QDataSet

<h3>Returns:</h3>
boolean

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<h2>datasetToArray</h2>
datasetToArray( <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/das2/qds/QDataSet.html'>QDataSet</a> ds, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/das2/datum/UnitsConverter.html'>org.das2.datum.UnitsConverter</a> uc, int itype, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/das2/util/monitor/ProgressMonitor.html'>ProgressMonitor</a> mon ) &rarr; <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html'>Object</a>

<p>CDF library needs array in double or triple arrays.</p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
ds - the dataset.
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uc - UnitsConverter in case we need to handle times.
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itype - the CDF data type, for example 21=float
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mon - a progress monitor

<h3>Returns:</h3>
a 1,2,3,4-d array of double,long,float,int,short,byte.
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datasetToArray( <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/das2/qds/QDataSet.html'>QDataSet</a> ds, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/das2/datum/UnitsConverter.html'>org.das2.datum.UnitsConverter</a> uc, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/gov/nasa/gsfc/spdf/cdfj/CDFDataType.html'>gov.nasa.gsfc.spdf.cdfj.CDFDataType</a> type, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/das2/util/monitor/ProgressMonitor.html'>ProgressMonitor</a> mon ) &rarr; <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html'>Object</a><br>
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<h2>formatData</h2>
formatData( <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html'>String</a> uri, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/das2/qds/QDataSet.html'>QDataSet</a> data, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/das2/util/monitor/ProgressMonitor.html'>ProgressMonitor</a> mon ) &rarr; void

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<h3>Parameters</h3>
uri - a String
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data - a QDataSet
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mon - a ProgressMonitor

<h3>Returns:</h3>
void (returns nothing)

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<h2>getDescription</h2>
getDescription(  ) &rarr; <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html'>String</a>

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<h3>Returns:</h3>
java.lang.String

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<h2>streamData</h2>
streamData( <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Map.html'>java.util.Map</a> params, <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Iterator.html'>java.util.Iterator</a> data, <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/OutputStream.html'>java.io.OutputStream</a> out ) &rarr; boolean

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<h3>Parameters</h3>
params - a java.util.Map
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data - a java.util.Iterator
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out - an OutputStream

<h3>Returns:</h3>
boolean

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