Dear All,
I have a strange observation with writing single objects to a TTree. If I try to write out an std::vector of my custom objects, then everything works as I would expect. The names of the sub-branches within the main branch look like
.But if I just add a single one of my custom objects to the TTree, the sub-branches get a name that doesn’t contain the main branch name.
Reading the TTree documentation, I tried adding a dot after the branch name. If I do this, the created TTree now contains sub-branches which are called ., but now the name of the main branch is “.”. So the main branch now has a dot in its name.
To make the situation even stranger, if I give a name with a dot for a branch of an std::vector of my class, everything still works correctly. So the main branch’s name doesn’t contain a dot, and the sub-branches are still named correctly.
I guess writing out single custom objects is not the most usual use case. I have to admit that I’m only looking at the issue because somebody told me about it. I would need the usual naming (.) for these branches because my analysis code only activates the branches which are to be read by the analysis. So if the sub-branches don’t have a name that begin with the name of the main branch, then the code doesn’t know how to activate these branches.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Cheers,
Attila