Example #1
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/**
 * Creates the output workspace for this algorithm
 * @param inputWorkspace A parent workspace to initialize from.
 * @return A pointer to the output workspace.
 */
API::MatrixWorkspace_sptr Transpose::createOutputWorkspace(
    API::MatrixWorkspace_const_sptr inputWorkspace) {
  Mantid::API::Axis *yAxis = getVerticalAxis(inputWorkspace);
  const size_t oldNhist = inputWorkspace->getNumberHistograms();
  const auto &inX = inputWorkspace->x(0);
  const size_t oldYlength = inputWorkspace->blocksize();
  const size_t oldVerticalAxislength = yAxis->length();

  // The input Y axis may be binned so the new X data should be too
  size_t newNhist(oldYlength), newXsize(oldVerticalAxislength),
      newYsize(oldNhist);
  MatrixWorkspace_sptr outputWorkspace = inputWorkspace->cloneEmpty();
  outputWorkspace->initialize(newNhist, newXsize, newYsize);
  outputWorkspace->setTitle(inputWorkspace->getTitle());
  outputWorkspace->setComment(inputWorkspace->getComment());
  outputWorkspace->copyExperimentInfoFrom(inputWorkspace.get());
  outputWorkspace->setYUnit(inputWorkspace->YUnit());
  outputWorkspace->setYUnitLabel(inputWorkspace->YUnitLabel());
  outputWorkspace->setDistribution(inputWorkspace->isDistribution());

  // Create a new numeric axis for Y the same length as the old X array
  // Values come from input X
  API::NumericAxis *newYAxis(nullptr);
  if (inputWorkspace->isHistogramData()) {
    newYAxis = new API::BinEdgeAxis(inX.rawData());
  } else {
    newYAxis = new API::NumericAxis(inX.rawData());
  }

  newYAxis->unit() = inputWorkspace->getAxis(0)->unit();
  outputWorkspace->getAxis(0)->unit() = inputWorkspace->getAxis(1)->unit();
  outputWorkspace->replaceAxis(1, newYAxis);
  setProperty("OutputWorkspace", outputWorkspace);
  return outputWorkspace;
}