Compress data contents when exporting MFFs into JSON files

Question

Compress data contents when exporting MFFs into JSON files

damian5710 opened this issue 5 years ago · 3 comments

damian5710 commented 5 years ago

OS/Platform: All

Enhancement Request:

We should compress data contents when exporting MFFs into JSON files.

Acceptance Criteria:

Data contents stored in the exported JSON files are compressed (e.g. using base64 encoding scheme).

Answer 1 · 2020-01-16T23:51:18.000Z

Adding in a user experience for this enhancement.
Users of BELCO's EMFAV product just reported trying to load in an MFF that has been segmented and then converted into JSON results in a file too large for EMFAV to handle.

For the purview of MFFpy - this feature's implementation could help that.

Answer 2 · 2020-01-28T19:43:25.000Z

We now compress the EEG data before exporting MFF contents into JSON format and the resulting files are considerably smaller.

If we don't need to compress any other content, I think we can close this Issue. What do you think @ViridianForge and @ephathaway ?

Answer 3 · 2020-01-29T00:35:50.000Z

I agree. If we were to need to compress other content in the future, or change our compression output for JSON - we can open a new enhancement. Thank you for your contribution @damian5710!