AVT Camera

[i-jey]

Work in progress
Issue: #141

Skeleton for now, actively working on this.

A couple questions - should we retain the format of the wrapper used in ulc-malaria-scope (here)

• i.e circumvent the intended context manager format?
• Should this class instead use a multithreaded producer/consumer structure - something like the example provided by VimbaPython here?
• What API should it conform with to match the rest of coPylot?

[AhmetCanSolak]

should we retain the format of the wrapper used in ulc-malaria-scope (here)

• i.e circumvent the intended context manager format?

It seems wise to use the context manager in our class as it takes care of init/de-init steps, but we don't need to require our API users to create context managers with our adaptors. So something like the wrapper implemented in ulc-malaria-scope is a good starting point for us IMHO. Also this will make our adaptor a drop-in replacement in ulc-malaria-scope repo.

• Should this class instead use a multithreaded producer/consumer structure - something like the example provided by VimbaPython here?

I checked the Vimba example, we can implement something similar when we have multiple camera use-case. Currently, we don't seem to need it, we can move with single camera assumption for now.

• What API should it conform with to match the rest of coPylot?

There is no specified in cameras submodule yet, and we can discuss on this PR and merge something that might be subject to updates in the future.

[AhmetCanSolak]

Btw, if you don't mind @i-jey, I like to move some of the functions from https://github.com/czbiohub/ulc-malaria-scope/blob/develop/ulc_mm_package/hardware/real/camera.py to this PR and submit to PR branch. Is it okay for you @i-jey ?

[i-jey]

Btw, if you don't mind @i-jey, I like to move some of the functions from https://github.com/czbiohub/ulc-malaria-scope/blob/develop/ulc_mm_package/hardware/real/camera.py to this PR and submit to PR branch. Is it okay for you @i-jey ?

@AhmetCanSolak That sounds good! I was going to do that earlier but figured I should hold off until I heard your thoughts on how we should structure this class :)