Re: [thredds] FMRC URL's: dataset name now matters in TDS 4.2

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• Subject: Re: [thredds] FMRC URL's: dataset name now matters in TDS 4.2
• From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:49:12 -0700

On 11/29/2010 5:13 PM, John Maurer, IV wrote:

Hi All,

Prior to TDS 4.2, you used to be able to change the name of a dataset without adversely affecting the URL to its FMRC components (Best Time Series, Constant Forecast, etc.). Although the title is used to construct the URL, everything up to the final _best.ncd used to be arbitrary. Now I'm finding that a change in the dataset name will break the FMRC URL's. For example:

http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/hioos/model/atm/wrf_oa/WRF_Oahu_Regional_Atmospheric_Model_(1.5km)_best.ncd

The name gets appended to _best.ncd: "WRF Oahu Regional Atmospheric Model (1.5km)". It used to not matter what went before _best.ncd, and in fact you could even just use the following URL:

http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/hioos/model/atm/wrf_oa/_best.ncd

Now if I change that name to something else (e.g. "WRF Oahu Regional Atmospheric Model"), the old URL breaks because it's now expecting the following:

http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/hioos/model/atm/wrf_oa/WRF_Oahu_Regional_Atmospheric_Model_best.ncd


Is this the new way it will behave or is it a bug that can be fixed?

Hi John:

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