How can I "dump" / get the content of objects of "experiment specific" / "custom" classes (from a TTree)

[JacekHoleczek]

I need to "move" (to here) my original StackOverflow topic: How can I "dump" / get the content of objects of "experiment specific" / "custom" classes (from a TTree)
Apparently, they do not allow any discussions there (they simply deleted my follow-up).

Many thanks for your reply on the StackOverflow.

The standard ROOT provides the TFile::MakeProject method, which can generate "source code" for classes present in the file (only "data members" are "recovered" from the "streamer info", of course).
I understand uproot does not provide such functionality (i.e., I cannot get "automatically generated" Python classes), or does it?

To start, I'd now like to play with the small "header" tree that has only a single branch.
The root_directory['header'].show() returns:

POTInfo_v2           | Header                   | AsObjects(Model_Header)

The root_directory.file.show_streamers('Header') returns:

Header (v1)
    _POT_CountedPerFile: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _POT_NoCut: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _POT_BadBeam: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _POT_BadND280: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _POT_GoodBeamGoodND280: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _POT_0KA: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _POT_200KA: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _POT_250KA: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _POT_m250KA: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _POT_OtherKA: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _POTInfo: double (TStreamerBasicType)
    _Spill_NoCut: int (TStreamerBasicType)
    _Spill_BadBeam: int (TStreamerBasicType)
    _Spill_BadND280: int (TStreamerBasicType)
    _Spill_GoodBeamGoodND280: int (TStreamerBasicType)
    _SpillInfo: int (TStreamerBasicType)
    _IsMC: bool (TStreamerBasicType)
    _SoftwareVersion: string (TStreamerSTLstring)
    _pot_def_counter: int (TStreamerBasicType)
    _spill_def_counter: int (TStreamerBasicType)

So, there are just some double, some int, one bool, and one std::string ordinary variables (no arrays at all).

However, when I look at the TFile::MakeProject method output, I can see two arrays:

   (...)
   Double_t    _POTInfo[13];
   (...)
   Int_t       _SpillInfo[6];
   (...)

When I try to retrieve just the first entry:

root_directory['header']['POTInfo_v2'].array(entry_stop=1)

I get (note: it now thinks _POTInfo and _SpillInfo are arrays and their lengths are fine, too):

(...)
DeserializationError: while reading

    Header version 6792 as uproot.dynamic.Model_Header_v1 (71320410 bytes)
        _POT_CountedPerFile: 2.6612249000050942e-110
        _POT_NoCut: 0.0
        _POT_BadBeam: 0.0
        _POT_BadND280: 0.0
        _POT_GoodBeamGoodND280: 0.0
        _POT_0KA: 0.0
        _POT_200KA: 0.0
        _POT_250KA: 0.0
        _POT_m250KA: 0.0
        _POT_OtherKA: 3.7076069415964e-310
        _POTInfo: array([7.67844769e-239, 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000, 3.70760694e-310,
       7.67844769e-239, 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000,
       0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000, 0.00000000e+000,
       0.00000000e+000], dtype='>f8')
        _Spill_NoCut: 0
        _Spill_BadBeam: 0
        _Spill_BadND280: 96
        _Spill_GoodBeamGoodND280: -1051394048
        _SpillInfo: array([          0,           0,          96, -1051394048,         320,
              2304], dtype='>i4')
        _IsMC: True
Members for Header: (_POT_CountedPerFile), (_POT_NoCut), (_POT_BadBeam), (_POT_BadND280), (_POT_GoodBeamGoodND280), (_POT_0KA), (_POT_200KA), (_POT_250KA), (_POT_m250KA), (_POT_OtherKA), (_POTInfo), (_Spill_NoCut), (_Spill_BadBeam), (_Spill_BadND280), (_Spill_GoodBeamGoodND280), (_SpillInfo), (_IsMC), _SoftwareVersion, _pot_def_counter, _spill_def_counter

attempting to get bytes 234:283
outside expected range 0:246 for this Chunk
in file NumuCCMultiPi_MCrun4.root
in object /header;1

It seems I'm missing something again (adding library='ak', library='np', or library='pd' does not help).

[JacekHoleczek]

I decided to try another branch that belongs to another small "config" tree.
The root_directory['config'].show(filter_name='*rootStep') returns:

SEL/SEL._rootStep    | StepBase*[]              | AsObjects(AsArray(True, False, AsPointer(Model_StepBase), ()))

The root_directory.file.show_streamers('StepBase') returns (note: it doesn't show what the StepBase::TypeEnum is):

TObject (v1)
    fUniqueID: unsigned int (TStreamerBasicType)
    fBits: unsigned int (TStreamerBasicType)

StepBase (v1): TObject (v1)
    _type: StepBase::TypeEnum (TStreamerBasicType)
    _break: bool (TStreamerBasicType)
    _title: string (TStreamerSTLstring)
    _disabledInBranch: vector<bool> (TStreamerSTL)
    _nextSteps: vector<StepBase*> (TStreamerSTL)
    _branchUniqueIDs: vector<unsigned int> (TStreamerSTL)

For the "_type: StepBase::TypeEnum" leaf, the TFile::MakeProject method output shows:

(...)
enum TypeEnum { kDefault_TypeEnum };
(...)
   Int_t       _type;
(...)

When I try to retrieve just the first entry:

root_directory['config']['SEL/SEL._rootStep'].array(entry_stop=1, library='np')

I get:

(...)
NotImplementedError: memberwise serialization of AsArray
in file NumuCCMultiPi_MCrun4.root

Using library='pd' does not help (library='ak' generates an "arbitrary pointer" ValueError).