Would it be possible to add an the epoch timestamp along with the duration based mode for ousterFileReader?

Would it be possible to add an arguement to allow absolute time in the form of an epoch time to be imported in the ousterFileReader object along with the relative "duration" time?

Answer 1

[Yatharth]

Hi, I understand that you need an "absoluteTime" property along with already exisiting "Duration" property for "ousterFileReader".

To achieve this, you can modify the ousterFileReader class or create a wrapper class that extends it. Here's an example of how you can implement this:

classdef CustomOusterFileReader < ousterFileReader
    properties
        absoluteTime % Absolute time in epoch format
    end
    
    methods
        function obj = CustomOusterFileReader(filename, duration, absoluteTime)
            % Call the superclass constructor
            obj@ousterFileReader(filename, duration);
            
            % Assign the absolute time property
            obj.absoluteTime = absoluteTime;
        end
    end
end

In this example, we create a new class called CustomOusterFileReader that extends the ousterFileReader class. We add a new property absoluteTime to store the absolute time in epoch format. While creating the object for CustomOusterFileReader you'll need to provide three inputs filename, duration, absoluteTime.

You can also refer to the ousterFileReader documentation and use properties like "StartTime" , "EndTime" they might be useful according to your need.