[thredds] Plus sign and global attributes.

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• Subject: [thredds] Plus sign and global attributes.
• From: "Phil Cogbill (NOAA Affiliate)" <phil.cogbill@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:08:00 -0400

I am working TDS 4.3.21 and NcML to to fix an issue with "Volumetric soil
moisture frozen + liquid" showing up in the "Global Attributes" in the
OPeNDAP Dataset Access Form.

[image: Inline image 1]

Let me start from the beginning.  With TDS 4.2.9 we saw this same behaviour
and renamed the variable this way...

<variable name="Volumetric_soil_moisture_frozen_and_liquid"
  orgName="Volumetric_soil_moisture_frozen_+_liquid" />

With 4.2.9 this fixes the issue with the garbled metadata in the Global
Attributes.  When this is added to the 4.3.21 catalog this happens...

Error {
    code = 500;
    message = "New variable
(Volumetric_soil_moisture_frozen_and_liquid) must have datatype
attribute";
};


After finding this I dug around in the code to add a type and added this...

<variable name="Volumetric_soil_moisture_frozen_and_liquid"
  orgName="Volumetric_soil_moisture_frozen_+_liquid"
  type="float" />

Then I get two variables, the original and the new one with the _and_
in the name, plus the Global Attributes metadata is still not correct.
 I have even tried to remove the variable in multiple ways and it
still shows up in the metadata as it is in the image above...

 <remove name="Volumetric_soil_moisture_frozen_+_liquid"    type="variable" />

<remove name="Volumetric_soil_moisture_frozen_%2b_liquid"
    type="variable" />


Any help to fix this would be super!  :-D


Thanks!

Phil Cogbill (Government Contractor)

Senior Architect, STG, Inc.
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
Climate Services and Monitoring Division
Data Access and Applications Branch

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