Re: [netcdf-java] ucar.nc2.FileWriter question

• To: Christopher Mueller <cmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdf-java] ucar.nc2.FileWriter question
• From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:56:22 -0700

I think this is a bug that needs to be fixed. there are some issues about 
translating to valid
netcdf3 names that I have to look at. thanks for reporting, i'll get back to 
you.

Christopher Mueller wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am using the ucar.nc2.FileWriter to write an opendap file to a local
> nc file.  The process works great, but I’ve noticed that if there are
> “.” in the name of the variable being written (i.e.
> “temperature.anomalies”), an error (stack trace below) is thrown during
> the FileWriter.finish() call and the write fails.
> 
> Error Stack:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: NetcdfFileWriteable.write illegal
> variable name = temperature.anomalies
> at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFileWriteable.write(NetcdfFileWriteable.java:538)
> at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFileWriteable.write(NetcdfFileWriteable.java:477)
> at ucar.nc2.FileWriter.copyAll(FileWriter.java:267)
> at ucar.nc2.FileWriter.copyVarData(FileWriter.java:223)
> at ucar.nc2.FileWriter.finish(FileWriter.java:459)
> at
> com.asascience.edc.nc.io.NetcdfGridWriter.writeFile(NetcdfGridWriter.java:247)
> 
> Is there a way I can work around this?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Chris
> 
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