Function register_writer

monai/data/image_writer.py:67–89

Register ``ImageWriter``, so that writing a file with filename extension ``ext_name`` could be resolved to a tuple of potentially appropriate ``ImageWriter``. The customised writers could be registered by: .. code-block:: python from monai.data import register_writer

(ext_name, *im_writers)

def register_writer(ext_name, *im_writers):
    """
    Register ``ImageWriter``, so that writing a file with filename extension ``ext_name``
    could be resolved to a tuple of potentially appropriate ``ImageWriter``.
    The customised writers could be registered by:

    .. code-block:: python

        from monai.data import register_writer
        # `MyWriter` must implement `ImageWriter` interface
        register_writer("nii", MyWriter)

    Args:
        ext_name: the filename extension of the image.
            As an indexing key, it will be converted to a lower case string.
        im_writers: one or multiple ImageWriter classes with high priority ones first.
    """
    fmt = f"{ext_name}".lower()
    if fmt.startswith("."):
        fmt = fmt[1:]
    existing = look_up_option(fmt, SUPPORTED_WRITERS, default=())
    all_writers = im_writers + existing
    SUPPORTED_WRITERS[fmt] = all_writers


def resolve_writer(ext_name, error_if_not_found=True) -> Sequence: