common_cff.py

import FWCore.ParameterSet.Config as cms
def OVar(valtype, doc=None, precision=-1):
    """ Create a PSet for a variable in the tree (without specifying how it is computed)

           valtype is the type of the value (float, int, bool, or a string that the table producer understands),
           doc is a docstring, that will be passed to the table producer,
    """
    if   valtype == float: valtype = "float"
    elif valtype == int:   valtype = "int"
    elif valtype == bool:  valtype = "bool"
    return cms.PSet(
                type = cms.string(valtype),
                doc = cms.string(doc if doc else expr),
                precision=cms.optional.allowed(cms.string, cms.int32, default = (cms.string(precision) if type(precision)==str else cms.int32(precision)))
           )

def Var(expr, valtype, doc=None, precision=-1, lazyEval=False):
    """Create a PSet for a variable computed with the string parser

       expr is the expression to evaluate to compute the variable
       (in case of bools, it's a cut and not a function)

       see OVar above for all the other arguments
    """
    return OVar(valtype, doc=(doc if doc else expr), precision=precision).clone(
                expr = cms.string(expr), lazyEval=cms.untracked.bool(lazyEval))

def ExtVar(tag, valtype, doc=None, precision=-1):
    """Create a PSet for a variable read from the event

       tag is the InputTag to the variable.

       see OVar in common_cff for all the other arguments
    """
    return OVar(valtype, precision=precision, doc=(doc if doc else tag.encode())).clone(
                src = tag if isinstance(tag, cms.InputTag) else cms.InputTag(tag),
          )


PTVars = cms.PSet(
    pt  = Var("pt",  float, precision=-1),
    phi = Var("phi", float, precision=12),
)
P3Vars = cms.PSet(PTVars,
    eta  = Var("eta",  float,precision=12),
)
P4Vars = cms.PSet(P3Vars,
    mass = Var("mass", float,precision=10),
)
CandVars = cms.PSet(P4Vars,
    pdgId  = Var("pdgId", int, doc="PDG code assigned by the event reconstruction (not by MC truth)"),
    charge = Var("charge", int, doc="electric charge"),
)