imagej / imagej/imagej-plugins-commands
Offer to convert types if needed when saving
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Description
Some image formats can only save to certain image types. When attempting to save an image which is not one of those types, an exception similar to the following occurs:
```
[ERROR] net.imglib2.io.ImgIOException: Pixel type not supported. Please convert your image to a supported type.
at net.imglib2.io.ImgIOUtils.makeType(ImgIOUtils.java:227)
at net.imglib2.io.ImgSaver.populateMeta(ImgSaver.java:631)
at net.imglib2.io.ImgSaver.initializeWriter(ImgSaver.java:596)
at net.imglib2.io.ImgSaver.saveImg(ImgSaver.java:184)
at imagej.core.commands.io.SaveAsImage.run(SaveAsImage.java:141)
```
We should at minimum make this message nicer (display a dialog instead of an exception dump). But really, it would be nice to offer to convert to a supported output format rather than just failing. We might need to add some API to SCIFIO for this.
Migrated from [Fiji bug #315](http://fiji.sc/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=315) and [OME ticket #5323](http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/ticket/5323). See also [ImageJ Trac ticket #1704](http://trac.imagej.net/ticket/1704).
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Research direction
Start in imagej.core.commands.io.SaveAsImage.run and follow the ImgSaver.saveImg, initializeWriter, and populateMeta calls shown in the stack trace. First inspect how the save command handles ImgIOException, then determine how a supported conversion could be offered through the SCIFIO API. Done means failed saves show a dialog and users can choose conversion when the output type is unsupported.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100