Fill a branch variable using TTreeReader

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Hello,

A simple question hopefully – How can I fill a branch variable automatically using the TTreeReader?

I thought I could do something like this …

#include "Event/SimEvent.h"

#include "TFile.h"
#include "TTreeReader.h"

void simpleTreeReaderTest(const char *fname) {
    auto file = TFile::Open(fname);
    TTreeReader reader("Event_Tree", file);
    auto event = new event::SimEvent();
    auto branch = reader.GetTree()->GetBranch("Event");
    branch->SetAddress(event);
    while (reader.Next()) {
        std::cout << "Entry: " << reader.GetCurrentEntry() << std::endl;
        std::cout << "Event: " << event->getEventNumber() << std::endl;
        std::cout << std::endl;
    }
}

But it doesn’t seem to work, as the event object is not filled and I see that the event number does not change as I call the reader.Next() method.

I have done this with the tree->GetEntry() method in the past but I wasn’t sure if this is usable given that I’m trying to use the reader’s state instead now inside a loop.

Thanks.

–Jeremy

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Hi Jeremy,

See The TTreeReader Class Reference and Using the TTreeReader

Cheers, Bertrand.