Re: How to associate attributes with fields in netCDF-4 compound types?

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• Subject: Re: How to associate attributes with fields in netCDF-4 compound types?
• From: Ed Hartnett <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:42:03 -0700

Guys,

How about a function like this:

EXTERNL int
nc_def_compound_att(int ncid, nc_type compound_typeid, char *att_name,
                        nc_type att_base_typeid, nc_type
                        *att_typeidp);

This could construct a new compound type, suitable for use as such an
attribute. For example, after defining come compound type cmp_typeid,
you could create the type for a "units" attribute like this:

nc_def_compound_att(ncid, cmp_typeid, "units", NC_CHAR, units_att_typeid);

If you passed a base type of NC_NAT, the compound attribute type could
use the same type as each field in the compound type. So you could get
a _FillValue type like this:

nc_def_compound_att(ncid, cmp_typeid, "_FillValue", NC_NAT, fill_att_typeid);

This functions could serve both as a convenience to the user and a way
of ensuring that everyone handles the problem the same way.

Any thoughts?

Ed




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