ClassDef / ClassImp

ROOT
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Hi Bertrand,
when will we get rid of ClassDefs/ClassImps?

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ClassImp are not needed anymore

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ClassDefs (or inheritance from TObject) are not needed either for the I/O of custom classes, you only need to generate the corresponding dictionaries.

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I’ve moved this to a new topic; not immediately obvious what this has to do with clang-repl.

As @eguiraud points out, ClassImp is not needed since many many years. ClassDef is required for classes inheriting from TObject, and an optional I/O optimization for another classes.

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The manual has been updated.

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…but it’s still wrong/misleading as it implies that inheritance from TObject is mandatory

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Bring "how to use my class with ROOT" up to date. by Axel-Naumann · Pull Request #611 · root-project/web · GitHub might help.

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Hi @couet ,
sorry for small “oftopic comment”:

  1. the linked page suggests that ClassImp is mandatory and later… you write about ClassDef, also in example you added a comment that ClassImp is for I/O and RTTI
  2. it will be nice to explain what “default values” mean for pointers pointers. As far as I know in some part of “ROOT user’s guide” it’s written that in principle all pointers should be initialized in default constructor as nullptr,
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My change addresses your point 1 already. I’ll add the nullptr initialization, good point!

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Good points. Fixed by Remove ClassImp references by couet · Pull Request #612 · root-project/web · GitHub

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