Geo::G...Driver(3pm)

🦋 Geo::GDAL::FFI::Driver — the user contributed Perl documentation glow-up 💅

okay so bestie, you're reading the manual page for Geo::GDAL::FFI::Driver, which lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your system. It's a whole vibe and we're gonna walk through it together, no cap. ✨

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👑 NAME

Geo::GDAL::FFI::Driver — a GDAL data access driver. fr fr that's it, that's the whole name.

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✨ SYNOPSIS

(crickets 🦗) ...yeah the synopsis section is literally empty here, bestie. The real deets are down in METHODS, keep scrolling. 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION

So like, this is a format driver. It's the thing that actually knows how to talk to a given data format. If you want one, you get it by calling the Driver method on a Geo::GDAL::FFI object. That's the whole doorway. 🚪✨

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💅 METHODS

🎀 GetName

my $name = $driver->GetName;

Returns the name of the driver. Short, sweet, iconic. 🫶

🦋 Create

my $name = $driver->Create($name, {Width => 100, ...});

This one creates a dataset. Your $name is, like, the name for the dataset you're creating. Then you hand it named arguments, and here's the whole list, no skips, no shortcuts — obsessed with completeness honestly:

• Width — Optional, BUT it's required to create a raster dataset. So... optional only if you're not doing raster things. She contains multitudes. 😭
• Height — Optional, and the default is the same as width.
• Bands — Optional, the number of raster bands in the dataset, and the default is one.
• DataType — Optional, the data type (as a string, bestie) for the raster cells, default is 'Byte'.
• Source — Optional, the dataset to copy.
• Progress — Optional, only used in dataset copy, and it's a reference to a subroutine. That subroutine gets called with three arguments, ($fraction, $msg, $data), where $fraction is a number, $msg is a string, and $data is a pointer that is given as the progress data argument. Very "here's your progress bar, go off" energy. 🔥
• ProgressData — Optional, only used in dataset copy, a reference.
• Strict — Optional, only used in dataset copy, and the default is false (0).
• Options — Optional, driver specific creation options, and the default is a reference to an empty hash. 🍓

Then there's the lite version, for when you're feeling lowkey:

my $name = $driver->Create($name, $width);

A simple syntax for calling Create to create a raster dataset. That's it, that's the shortcut. Slay. 💜

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🌈 LICENSE

This software is released under the Artistic License. See perlartistic. 💖

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🧚 AUTHOR

Ari Jolma — Ari.Jolma at gmail.com

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⭐ SEE ALSO

• Geo::GDAL::FFI
• Alien::gdal
• FFI::Platypus
• http://www.gdal.org — yes it's written with angle brackets in the original, <http://www.gdal.org>, we're keeping it exactly as-is because facts don't change around here. ✨

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