Method canRead

src/IECore/ObjectReader.cpp:65–90

}

bool ObjectReader::canRead( const std::string &fileName )
{
	// Ideally we'd like to look inside the file and see if it contains one object only
	// but for efficiency purposes we'll just try and open the file as a database and
	// see if that succeeds. We could possibly query the structure of the database and
	// check that it matches the signature of a one-object cache without needing to
	// actually read the data.
	IndexedIOPtr io = nullptr;

	try
	{
		if ( FileIndexedIO::canRead( fileName ) )
		{
			return true;
		}

		io = open(fileName);
		return true;
	}

	catch (Exception &)
	{
		return false;
	}

}

ObjectPtr ObjectReader::doOperation( const CompoundObject * operands )
{