From 735a866aa5e82dc7ffbf6cb81ad39d58678ba053 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Adkisson <paul.wesley.adkisson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:55:38 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Added specific error message for single-frame scanimage data
 (#360)

* added specific notimplementederror for single-frame case

* updated changelog
---
 CHANGELOG.md                                        | 13 ++++++++++++-
 .../scanimagetiffimagingextractor.py                |  7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 62d7ec67..562a132f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
-# Upcoming (v0.5.9)
+# Upcoming (v0.5.10)
+
+### Features
+
+### Fixes
+* Added specific error message for single-frame scanimage data [PR #360](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/360)
+
+### Improvements
+
+### Testing
+
+# v0.5.9
 
 ### Deprecations
 
diff --git a/src/roiextractors/extractors/tiffimagingextractors/scanimagetiffimagingextractor.py b/src/roiextractors/extractors/tiffimagingextractors/scanimagetiffimagingextractor.py
index bdc1bc38..155ace8f 100644
--- a/src/roiextractors/extractors/tiffimagingextractors/scanimagetiffimagingextractor.py
+++ b/src/roiextractors/extractors/tiffimagingextractors/scanimagetiffimagingextractor.py
@@ -299,7 +299,12 @@ def __init__(
         ScanImageTiffReader = _get_scanimage_reader()
         with ScanImageTiffReader(str(self.file_path)) as io:
             shape = io.shape()  # [frames, rows, columns]
-        if len(shape) == 3:
+        if len(shape) == 2:  # [rows, columns]
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "Extractor cannot handle single-frame ScanImageTiff data. Please raise an issue to request this feature: "
+                "https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/issues "
+            )
+        elif len(shape) == 3:
             self._total_num_frames, self._num_rows, self._num_columns = shape
             if (
                 self._num_planes == 1