[Liblas-devel] Overriding a Reader's header

[Mateusz Loskot]

Howard Butler wrote:
> I propose that we provide a
> 
> LASReader(std::istream& ifs, LASHeader& header)
> 
> constructor, and if this constructor is used, this header is used to
> describe the data except for the following condition... we respect the
> dataoffset as it exists in the file (why it isn't const).  This will
> allow a user to override things like the coordinate system, scales,
> dates, etc but still allow the file to be read.
> 
> Make sense?

Hobu,

Sure, it looks perfectly OK to me, except I would pass header by const:

LASReader(std::istream& ifs, LASHeader const& header)

as long as I understand it correctly that it's input-only parameter,
should be anyway.

Best regards,
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