OME Common is a standalone C++ library required by other OME C++ projects for common functionality which is not readily available from the C++ Standard Library. This includes basic portability functions, to wrapping other libraries to make them usable with Modern C++ programming practices.

It serves a similar purpose to the OME formats-common Java library, with some shared functionality, though for the most part they are quite different.

• [Documentation] (http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/ome-files-cpp/)
• API reference

OME Common's primary purpose is to ensure that a certain level of basic functionality is provided for all platforms and compilers supported by OME C++ projects. It currently includes:

• Missing C++ standard library functionality:

  • regex

• Missing Boost functionality:

  • Endian conversions
  • Filesystem absolute path determination
  • Variant and MPL set up
  • Units (extended datatypes for all units used by the OME data model)

• Extra functionality:

  • Boolean type for iterable 8-bit mask pixel data
  • logging
  • installation path determination
  • memory streams
  • string portability and helper functions
  • XML parsing (Xerces-C++ Modern C++ RAII wrappers)

For more information, see the [documentation] (http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/ome-files-cpp/).

We welcome pull requests from anyone, but ask that you please verify the following before submitting a pull request:

• verify that the branch merges cleanly into master
• verify that the branch compiles
• run the unit tests (ctest -V) and correct any failures
• make sure that your commits contain the correct authorship information and, if necessary, a signed-off-by line
• make sure that the commit messages or pull request comment contains sufficient information for the reviewer(s) to understand what problem was fixed and how to test it