MultiTag: Convenience constructor that doesn't require DataArray
achilleas-k opened this issue · comments
I think we agree (at least in discussion with @mpsonntag and @jgrewe we agreed) that it's often annoying to have to create a DataArray for the positions of a MultiTag. One proposed solution would be to change the MultiTag to hold positions in a different data structure, but that would be a major API change, a file format change, and it would change workflows for situations where an existing DataArray can (or should) be used for a MultiTag's positions.
Instead, we could solve both issues with a constructor that takes a vector or native array or nix::NDArray and internally creates the DataArray for the user. The new DataArray can be named automatically based on the MultiTag's name and the data type can be inferred.
The same can be done for extents, of course.