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samples/cpp/imagelist_creator.cpp

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+/*this creates a yaml or xml list of files from the command line args
+ */
+
+#include "opencv2/core.hpp"
+#include "opencv2/imgcodecs.hpp"
+#include "opencv2/highgui.hpp"
+#include <string>
+#include <iostream>
+
+using std::string;
+using std::cout;
+using std::endl;
+
+using namespace cv;
+
+static void help(char** av)
+{
+  cout << "\nThis creates a yaml or xml list of files from the command line args\n"
+      "usage:\n./" << av[0] << " imagelist.yaml *.png\n"
+      << "Try using different extensions.(e.g. yaml yml xml xml.gz etc...)\n"
+      << "This will serialize this list of images or whatever with opencv's FileStorage framework" << endl;
+}
+
+int main(int ac, char** av)
+{
+  cv::CommandLineParser parser(ac, av, "{help h||}{@output||}");
+  if (parser.has("help"))
+  {
+    help(av);
+    return 0;
+  }
+  string outputname = parser.get<string>("@output");
+
+  if (outputname.empty())
+  {
+    help(av);
+    return 1;
+  }
+
+  Mat m = imread(outputname); //check if the output is an image - prevent overwrites!
+  if(!m.empty()){
+    std::cerr << "fail! Please specify an output file, don't want to overwrite you images!" << endl;
+    help(av);
+    return 1;
+  }
+
+  FileStorage fs(outputname, FileStorage::WRITE);
+  fs << "images" << "[";
+  for(int i = 2; i < ac; i++){
+    fs << string(av[i]);
+  }
+  fs << "]";
+  return 0;
+}