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Re: [thredds] Catalog Validation



Thanks Ethan! That's Exactly what I needed!
The validation output from my catalog contains 2 warnings (repeated numerous times): 

** warning: non-standard data type = unknown
** warning: non-standard dataFormat type = unknown
**Warning: Dataset (data/nc/123.nc): is selectable but no data type declared in it or in a parent element **Warning: Dataset (data/nc/ 200803061600_HFRadar_USEGC_6km_rtv_SIO.nc): is selectable but no data type declared in it or in a parent element
The dataType and dataFormat types both use restricted vocabularies, but neither offer an option for "unknown". In our service the source dataFormat may not be known (it is simply a DAP type).
Is it better to omit these two metadata tags if their values are either not known or not on the list of accepted values? 

What's the best practice here?


N



On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Ethan Davis wrote:


Hi Nathan,

Here's the reference doc for TDS 4.x:


http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/Projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.0/reference/CatalogService.html


And here's a validation URL that works for your catalog:


http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalogServices?command=validate&verbose=true&catalog=http://206.125.94.252:8080/opendap/data/nc/catalog.xml


Ethan


On 2/9/2010 3:12 PM, Nathan Potter wrote:



Ethan,

I want to validate the THREDDS catalog output of my server.

I looked here:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/Projects/THREDDS/tech/reference/CatalogService.html


And I tried this:

http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalogServices?cmd=validate&debug=true&catalog=http://206.125.94.252:8080/opendap/data/nc/catalog.xml


Which returned an HTML presentation of the catalog but no debugging
information. At this point I am guessing that any debugging output for 
my catalog is living in the TDS output logs on motherlode.ucar.edu
Is there another validation service that returns more information that I 
might use? Or is the solution for me to run my own TDS and use it to
validate catalogs from my THREDDS service?




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