<h2>org.das2.qstream.SimpleStreamFormatter</h2><p>Class for formatting QDataSets as QStreams.  Although this is "SimpleStreamFormatter," this is the only formatter written
 thus far, except for SerialStreamFormatter, which formats packet-by-packet.</p>
<h2>SimpleStreamFormatter( )</h2>
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<h2>format</h2>
format( <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/das2/qds/QDataSet.html'>QDataSet</a> ds, <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/OutputStream.html'>java.io.OutputStream</a> osout, boolean asciiTypes ) &rarr; void

<p>serialize the dataset to the output stream.  Presently most datasets can
 be serialized:<ul>
 <li> rank 0
 <li> rank 1
 <li> rank 2 qubes
 <li> array of rank 2 qubes
 <li> rank 3 qubes
 <li> bundle datasets.
 </ul>
 The design goal is that all datasets can be serialized using this formatter,
 however some schemas (e.g. high-rank non-qubes) will be inefficient.</p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
ds - the dataset to serialize.
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osout - the output stream, which will not be closed here.
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asciiTypes - use ascii format types so that the stream is completely ascii.

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

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

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<h3>Parameters</h3>
args - a java.lang.String[]

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

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