/**
* Create a dataset from an object which could be a Java list, array (of arrays...) or Number.
* Ragged sequences or arrays are padded with zeros.
*
* @param obj
* @return dataset with contents given by input
*/
public static StringDatasetBase createFromObject(final Object obj) {
StringDatasetBase result = new StringDatasetBase();
result.shape = getShapeFromObject(obj);
result.size = calcSize(result.shape);
try {
result.odata = result.data = createArray(result.size);
} catch (Throwable t) {
logger.error("Could not create a dataset of shape {}", Arrays.toString(result.shape), t);
throw t;
}
int[] pos = new int[result.shape.length];
result.fillData(obj, 0, pos);
return result;
}
