TChainIndex from individual TTreeIndex (+ TChain friends)

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Hello,

this post follows a previous discussion (that I can not reopen)

TTreeIndex write crash

Dear rooters, I tried to use an user defined TTree indexation in order to merge two TTrre with timestamped data. One of the two TTree is in fact a TChain with about 500 files and I faced the ordering issue which is explained in several posts. I then directly created a TTreeIndex, no complain from ROOT. But when I try to write it into a file, it exits without any error message and the resulting TFile is of course corrupted. I tried with less files in my TChain : it works. I assume that the…

To summarize: I have a TChain from several files (500) and I wanted to produce a index (actually a stamp,
but I must admit I did not test TTimeStamp yet, I just calculated myself the corresponding epoch as an long int)
I also have another TTree (or TChain) in one file a priori.
I would like to “merge” then using a “friend” mechanism, using the “biggest” TChain as friend.
The data in the master tree has stamps with a precision of the second, whereas the data in the friend goes down to the millisecond so for one stamp in the master I will have several in the friend (they are sorted though).
If I understand correctly the GetEntryNumberWithBestIndex would be the appropriate mechanism (it did work on a small scale).
The problem I had previously was a crash in saving the TTreeIndex (see TTreeIndex write crash). I thus was suggested to generate one index par tree of the chain.
My next question is thus: can you provide a minimal example on how to “merge” all these indexes for the chain ?

Thank you in advance,
Best regards
Julien

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ROOT Version: v5-34-36
Platform: Scientific Linux 6
Compiler: gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)

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