Replaces PR https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/3024
and PR https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/3033
re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2753
As suggested by Ed Hartnett, This PR extends the netcdf.h API to support programmatic control over the search path used to locate plugins.
I created several different APIs, but finally settled on the following API as being the simplest possible. It does have the disadvantage that it requires use of a global lock (not implemented) if used in a threaded environment.
Specifically, note that modifying the plugin path must be done "atomically". That is, in a multi-threaded environment, it is important that the sequence of actions involved in setting up the plugin path must be done by a single processor or in some other way as to guarantee that two or more processors are not simultaneously accessing the plugin path get/set operations.
As an example, assume there exists a mutex lock called PLUGINLOCK. Then any processor accessing the plugin paths should operate as follows:
````
lock(PLUGINLOCK);
nc_plugin_path_get(...);
<rebuild plugin path>
nc_plugin_path_set(...);
unlock(PLUGINLOCK);
````
## Internal Architecture
It is assumed here that there only needs to be a single set of plugin path directories that is shared by all filter code and is independent of any file descriptor; it is global in other words. This means, for example, that the path list for NCZarr and for HDF5 will always be the same.
However internally, processing the set of plugin paths depends on the particular NC_FORMATX value (NC_FORMATX_NC_HDF5 and NC_FORMATX_NCZARR, currently). So the *nc_plugin_path_set* function, will take the paths it is given and propagate them to each of the NC_FORMATX dispatchers to store in a way that is appropriate to the given dispatcher.
There is a complication with respect to the *nc_plugin_path_get* function. It is possible for users to bypass the netcdf API and modify the HDF5 plugin paths directly. This can result in an inconsistent plugin path between the value used by HDF5 and the global value used by netcdf-c. Since there is no obvious fix for this, we warn the user of this possibility and otherwise ignore it.
## Test Changes
* New tests<br>
a. unit_test/run_pluginpaths.sh -- was created to test this new capability.<br>
b. A new test utility has been added as *unit_test/run_dfaltpluginpath.sh* to test the default plugin path list.
* New test support utilities<br>
a. unit_test/ncpluginpath.c -- report current state of the plugin path<br>
b. unit_test/tst_pluginpaths.c -- test program to support run_pluginpaths.sh
## Documentation
* A new file -- docs/pluginpath.md -- provides documentation of the new API. It includes some
material taken fro filters.md.
## Other Major Changes
1. Cleanup the whole plugin path decision tree. This is described in the *docs/pluginpath.md* document and summarized in Addendum 2 below.
2. I noticed that the ncdump/testpathcvt.sh had been disabled, so fixed and re-enabled it. This necessitated some significant changes to dpathmgr.c.
## Misc. Changes
1. Add some path manipulation utilities to netcf_aux.h
2. Fix some minor bugs in netcdf_json.h
3. Convert netcdf_json.h and netcdf_proplist.h to BUILT_SOURCE.
4. Add NETCDF_ENABLE_HDF5 as synonym for USE_HDF5
5. Fix some size_t <-> int conversion warnings.
6. Encountered and fixed the Windows \r\n problem in tst_pluginpaths.c.
7. Cleanup some minor CMakeLists.txt problems.
8. Provide an implementation of echo -n since it appears to not be
available on all platforms.
9. Add a property list mechanism to pass environmental information to filters.
10. Cleanup Doxyfile.in
11. Fixed a memory leak in libdap2; surprised that I did not find this earlier.
## Addendum 1: Proposed API
The API makes use of a counted vector of strings representing the sequence of directories in the path. The relevant type definition is as follows.
````
typedef struct NCPluginList {size_t ndirs; char** dirs;} NCPluginList;
````
The API proposed in this PR looks like this (from netcdf-c/include/netcdf_filter.h).
* ````int nc_plugin_path_ndirs(size_t* ndirsp);````
Arguments: *ndirsp* -- store the number of directories in this memory.
This function returns the number of directories in the sequence if internal directories of the internal plugin path list.
* ````int nc_plugin_path_get(NCPluginList* dirs);````
Arguments: *dirs* -- counted vector for storing the sequence of directies in the internal path list.
This function returns the current sequence of directories from the internal plugin path list. Since this function does not modify the plugin path, it does not need to be locked; it is only when used to get the path to be modified that locking is required. If the value of *dirs.dirs* is NULL (the normal case), then memory is allocated to hold the vector of directories. Otherwise, use the memory of *dirs.dirs* to hold the vector of directories.
* ````int nc_plugin_path_set(const NCPluginList* dirs);````
Arguments: *dirs* -- counted vector for providing the new sequence of directories in the internal path list.
This function empties the current internal path sequence and replaces it with the sequence of directories argument. Using an *ndirs* argument of 0 will clear the set of plugin paths.
## Addendum 2: Build-Time and Run-Time Constants.
### Build-Time Constants
<table style="border:2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse">
<tr style="outline: thin solid;" align="center"><td colspan="4">Table showing the build-time computation of NETCDF_PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR and NETCDF_PLUGIN_SEARCH_PATH.</td>
<tr style="outline: thin solid" ><th>--with-plugin-dir<th>--prefix<th>NETCDF_PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR<th>NETCDF_PLUGIN_SEARCH_PATH
<tr style="outline: thin solid" ><td>undefined<td>undefined<td>undefined<td>PLATFORMDEFALT
<tr style="outline: thin solid" ><td>undefined<td><abspath-prefix><td><abspath-prefix>/hdf5/lib/plugin<td><abspath-prefix>/hdf5/lib/plugin<SEP>PLATFORMDEFALT
<tr style="outline: thin solid" ><td><abspath-plugins><td>N.A.<td><abspath-plugins><td><abspath-plugins><SEP>PLATFORMDEFALT
</table>
<table style="border:2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse">
<tr style="outline: thin solid" align="center"><td colspan="2">Table showing the computation of the initial global plugin path</td>
<tr style="outline: thin solid"><th>HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH<th>Initial global plugin path
<tr style="outline: thin solid"><td>undefined<td>NETCDF_PLUGIN_SEARCH_PATH
<tr style="outline: thin solid"><td><path1;...pathn><td><path1;...pathn>
</table>
# Description
Remove various obsolete build options. Also do some code movement.
## Specific Changes
* The remotetest server is sometimes unstable, so provide a mechanism
to force disabling calls to remotetest.unidata.ucar.edu.
This is enabled by adding a repository variable named
REMOTETESTDOWN with the value "yes".
* Fix CMakeLists.txt to use the uname command as an alternate
to using the hostname command (which does not work under cygwin).
* Remove the JNA stuff as obsolete
* Remove the ENABLE_CLIENTSIDE_FILTERS options since it has been
disabled for a while.
* Fix bad option flag in some github action .yml files: change --disable-xml2 to --disable-libxml2
* Collect globalstate definitions into nc4internal.h
* Remove ENABLE_NCZARR_FILTERS_TESTING option as obsolete and replace
with ENABLE_NCZARR_FILTERS
* Move some dispatcher independent functions from libsrc4/nc4internal.c to libdispatch/ddispatch.c
* As a long term goal, and because it is now the case that --enable-nczarr
=> USE_NETCDF4, make the external options --enable-netcdf-4 and
--enable-netcdf4 obsolete in favor of --enable-hdf5
We will do the following for one more release cycle.
1. Make --enable-netcdf-4 be an alias for --enable-netcdf4.
2. Make --enable-netcdf4 an alias for --enable-hdf5.
3. Internally, convert most uses of USE_NETCDF_4 ad USE_NETCDF4 to USE_HDF5
After the next release, --enable-netcdf-4 and --enable-netcdf4 will
be removed.
re: Issue https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2748
This PR fixes a number of issues and bugs.
## s3cleanup fixes
* Delete extraneous s3cleanup.sh related files.
* Remove duplicate s3cleanup.uids entries.
## Support the Google S3 API
* Add code to recognize "storage.gooleapis.com"
* Add extra code to track the kind of server being accessed: unknown, Amazon, Google.
* Add a new mode flag "gs3" (analog to "s3") to support this api.
* Modify the S3 URL code to support this case.
* Modify the listobjects result parsing because Google returns some non-standard XML elements.
* Change signature and calls for NC_s3urlrebuild.
## Handle corrupt Zarr files where shape is empty for a variable.
Modify behavior when a variable's "shape" dictionary entry.
Previously it returned an error, but now it suppresses such a variable.
This change makes it possible to read non-corrupt data from the file.
Also added a test case.
## Misc. Other Changes
* Fix the nclog level handling to suppress output by default.
* Fix de-duplicates code in ncuri.c
* Restore testing of iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu.
* Fix bug in define_vars() which did not always do a proper reclaim between variables.
This PR started as an attempt to add unlimited dimensions to NCZarr.
It did that, but this exposed significant problems with test interference.
So this PR is mostly about fixing -- well mitigating anyway -- test
interference.
The problem of test interference is now documented in the document docs/internal.md.
The solutions implemented here are also describe in that document.
The solution is somewhat fragile but multiple cleanup mechanisms
are provided. Note that this feature requires that the
AWS command line utility must be installed.
## Unlimited Dimensions.
The existing NCZarr extensions to Zarr are modified to support unlimited dimensions.
NCzarr extends the Zarr meta-data for the ".zgroup" object to include netcdf-4 model extensions. This information is stored in ".zgroup" as dictionary named "_nczarr_group".
Inside "_nczarr_group", there is a key named "dims" that stores information about netcdf-4 named dimensions. The value of "dims" is a dictionary whose keys are the named dimensions. The value associated with each dimension name has one of two forms
Form 1 is a special case of form 2, and is kept for backward compatibility. Whenever a new file is written, it uses format 1 if possible, otherwise format 2.
* Form 1: An integer representing the size of the dimension, which is used for simple named dimensions.
* Form 2: A dictionary with the following keys and values"
- "size" with an integer value representing the (current) size of the dimension.
- "unlimited" with a value of either "1" or "0" to indicate if this dimension is an unlimited dimension.
For Unlimited dimensions, the size is initially zero, and as variables extend the length of that dimension, the size value for the dimension increases.
That dimension size is shared by all arrays referencing that dimension, so if one array extends an unlimited dimension, it is implicitly extended for all other arrays that reference that dimension.
This is the standard semantics for unlimited dimensions.
Adding unlimited dimensions required a number of other changes to the NCZarr code-base. These included the following.
* Did a partial refactor of the slice handling code in zwalk.c to clean it up.
* Added a number of tests for unlimited dimensions derived from the same test in nc_test4.
* Added several NCZarr specific unlimited tests; more are needed.
* Add test of endianness.
## Misc. Other Changes
* Modify libdispatch/ncs3sdk_aws.cpp to optionally support use of the
AWS Transfer Utility mechanism. This is controlled by the
```#define TRANSFER```` command in that file. It defaults to being disabled.
* Parameterize both the standard Unidata S3 bucket (S3TESTBUCKET) and the netcdf-c test data prefix (S3TESTSUBTREE).
* Fixed an obscure memory leak in ncdump.
* Removed some obsolete unit testing code and test cases.
* Uncovered a bug in the netcdf-c handling of big-endian floats and doubles. Have not fixed yet. See tst_h5_endians.c.
* Renamed some nczarr_tests testcases to avoid name conflicts with nc_test4.
* Modify the semantics of zmap\#ncsmap_write to only allow total rewrite of objects.
* Modify the semantics of zodom to properly handle stride > 1.
* Add a truncate operation to the libnczarr zmap code.
It turns out that attempting to test S3 using a github action secret is a very complex process. So, this was disabled for github actions. However, a new *run_tests_s3.yml* action file was added that will eventually encapsulate S3 testing.
## Improvements to S3 Documentation
* Create a new document *quickstart_paths.md* that give a summary of the legal path formats used by netcdf-c. This includes both file paths and URL paths.
* Modify *nczarr.md* to remove most of the S3 related text.
* Move the S3 text from *nczarr.md* to a new document *cloud.md*.
* Add some S3-related text to the *byterange.md* document.
Hopefully, this will make it easier for users to find the information they want.
## Rebuild NCZarr Testing
In order to avoid problems with running make check in parallel, two changes were made:
1. The *nczarr_test* test system was rebuilt. Now, for each test.
any generated files are kept in a test-specific directory, isolated
from all other test executions.
2. Similarly, since the S3 test bucket is shared, any generated S3 objects
are isolated using a test-specific key path.
## Other S3 Related Changes
* Add code to ensure that files created on S3 are reclaimed at end of testing.
* Used the bash "trap" command to ensure S3 cleanup even if the test fails.
* Cleanup the S3 related configure.ac flag set since S3 is used in several places. So now one should use the option *--enable-s3* instead of *--enable-nczarr-s3*, although the latter is still kept as a deprecated alias for the former.
* Get some of the github actions yml to work with S3; required fixing various test scripts adding a secret to access the Unidata S3 bucket.
* Cleanup S3 portion of libnetcdf.settings.in and netcdf_meta.h.in and test_common.in.
* Merge partial S3 support into dhttp.c.
* Create an experimental s3 access library especially for use with Windows. It is enabled by using the options *--enable-s3-internal* (automake) or *-DENABLE_S3_INTERNAL=ON* (CMake). Also add a unit-test for it.
* Move some definitions from ncrc.h to ncs3sdk.h
## Other Changes
* Provide a default implementation of strlcpy and move this and similar defaults into *dmissing.c*.
re: Issue
The byterange handling of the following URLS fails.
### Problem 1: "https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/HadCRUT.4.6.0.0.median.nc#mode=bytes"
It turns out that byterange in hdf5 has two possible targets: S3 and not-S3 (e.g. a thredds server or the crudata URL above). Each uses a different HDF5 Virtual File Driver (VFD).
I incorrectly set up the byterange code in libhdf5 so that it would choose one or the other of the two VFD's for any netcdf-c library build. The fix is to allow it to choose either one at run-time.
### Problem 2: "https://noaa-goes16.s3.amazonaws.com/ABI-L1b-RadF/2022/001/18/OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M6C01_G16_s20220011800205_e20220011809513_c20220011809562.nc#mode=bytes,s3"
When given what appears to be an S3-related URL, the netcdf-c library code converts it into a canonical, so-called "path" format. In casing out the possible input URL formats, I missed the case where the host contains the bucket ("noaa-goes16"), but not the region. So the fix was to check for this case.
## Misc. Related Changes
1. Since S3 is used in more than just NCZarr, I changed the automake/cmake options to replace "--enable-nczarr-s3" with "--enable-s3", but keeping the former option as a synonym for the latter. This also entailed cleaning up libnetcdf.settings WRT S3 support
2. Added the above URLS as additional test cases
## Misc. Un-Related Changes
1. CURLOPT_PUT is deprecated in favor to CURLOPT_UPLOAD
2. Fix some minor warnings
## Open Problems
* Under Ubuntu, either libcrypto or aws-sdk-cpp has a memory leak.
* re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2278
* re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2485
* re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2474
This PR subsumes PR https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2278.
Actually is a bit an omnibus covering several issues.
## PR https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2278
Add support for the Zarr string type.
Zarr strings are restricted currently to be of fixed size.
The primary issue to be addressed is to provide a way for user to
specify the size of the fixed length strings. This is handled by providing
the following new attributes special:
1. **_nczarr_default_maxstrlen** —
This is an attribute of the root group. It specifies the default
maximum string length for string types. If not specified, then
it has the value of 64 characters.
2. **_nczarr_maxstrlen** —
This is a per-variable attribute. It specifies the maximum
string length for the string type associated with the variable.
If not specified, then it is assigned the value of
**_nczarr_default_maxstrlen**.
This PR also requires some hacking to handle the existing netcdf-c NC_CHAR
type, which does not exist in zarr. The goal was to choose numpy types for
both the netcdf-c NC_STRING type and the netcdf-c NC_CHAR type such that
if a pure zarr implementation read them, it would still work and an
NC_CHAR type would be handled by zarr as a string of length 1.
For writing variables and NCZarr attributes, the type mapping is as follows:
* "|S1" for NC_CHAR.
* ">S1" for NC_STRING && MAXSTRLEN==1
* ">Sn" for NC_STRING && MAXSTRLEN==n
Note that it is a bit of a hack to use endianness, but it should be ok since for
string/char, the endianness has no meaning.
For reading attributes with pure zarr (i.e. with no nczarr
atribute types defined), they will always be interpreted as of
type NC_CHAR.
## Issue: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2474
This PR partly fixes this issue because it provided more
comprehensive support for Zarr attributes that are JSON valued expressions.
This PR still does not address the problem in that issue where the
_ARRAY_DIMENSION attribute is incorrectly set. Than can only be
fixed by the creator of the datasets.
## Issue: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2485
This PR also fixes the scalar failure shown in this issue.
It generally cleans up scalar handling.
It also adds a note to the documentation describing that
NCZarr supports scalars while Zarr does not and also how
scalar interoperability is achieved.
## Misc. Other Changes
1. Convert the nczarr special attributes and keys to be all lower case. So "_NCZARR_ATTR" now used "_nczarr_attr. Support back compatibility for the upper case names.
2. Cleanup my too-clever-by-half handling of scalars in libnczarr.
re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2338
re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2294
In issue https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2338,
Ed Hartnett suggested a better way to install filters to a user
defined location -- for Automake, anyway.
This PR implements that suggestion. It turns out to be more
complicated than it appears, so there are fair number of changes;
mostly to shell scripts. Most of the change is in plugins/Makefile.am.
NOTE: this PR still does NOT address the use of HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH
as the default; this turns out to be complex when dealing with NCZarr.
So this will be addressed in a subsequent post 4.9.0 PR.
## Misc. Changes
1. Record the occurrences of incomplete codecs in libnczarr so that
they can be included in _Codecs attribute correctly. This allows
users to see what missing filters are referenced in the Zarr file.
Primarily affects libnczarr/zfilter.[ch]. Also required creating a
new no-effect filter: H5Zunknown.c.
2. Move the unknown filter test to a separate test file.
3. Incorporates PR https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2343
re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2294
Ed Hartnett suggested that the netcdf library installation process
be extended to install the standard filters into a user specified
location. The user can then set HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH to that location.
This PR provides that capability using:
````
configure option: --with-plugin-dir=<absolute directory path>
cmake option: -DPLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR=<absolute directory path>
````
Currently, the following plugins are always installed, if
available: bzip2, zstd, blosc.
If NCZarr is enabled, then additional plugins are installed:
fletcher32, shuffle, deflate, szip.
Additionally, the necessary codec support is installed
for each of the above filters that is installed.
## Changes:
1. Cleanup handling of built-in bzip2.
2. Add documentation to docs/filters.md
3. Re-factor the NCZarr codec libraries
4. Add a test, although it can only be exercised after
the library is installed, so it cannot be used during
normal testing.
5. Cleanup use of HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH in the filter test cases.
## Include <getopt.h> in various utilities
re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2303
As noted, some utilities are using getopt() without including
getopt.h, so add as needed.
## Turn off run_diskless2.sh when ENABLE_PARALLEL is true
re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2315
Ed notes that this test hangs when running parallel. The test
is attempting to create a very large in-memory file, which is
the proximate cause. But no idea what's the underlying cause.
re: Discussion https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/discussions/2214
The primary change is to support so-called "standard filters".
A standard filter is one that is defined by the following
netcdf-c API:
````
int nc_def_var_XXX(int ncid, int varid, size_t nparams, unsigned* params);
int nc_inq_var_XXXX(int ncid, int varid, int* usefilterp, unsigned* params);
````
So for example, zstandard would be a standard filter by defining
the functions *nc_def_var_zstandard* and *nc_inq_var_zstandard*.
In order to define these functions, we need a new dispatch function:
````
int nc_inq_filter_avail(int ncid, unsigned filterid);
````
This function, combined with the existing filter API can be used
to implement arbitrary standard filters using a simple code pattern.
Note that I would have preferred that this function return a list
of all available filters, but HDF5 does not support that functionality.
So this PR implements the dispatch function and implements
the following standard functions:
+ bzip2
+ zstandard
+ blosc
Specific test cases are also provided for HDF5 and NCZarr.
Over time, other specific standard filters will be defined.
## Primary Changes
* Add nc_inq_filter_avail() to netcdf-c API.
* Add standard filter implementations to test use of *nc_inq_filter_avail*.
* Bump the dispatch table version number and add to all the relevant
dispatch tables (libsrc, libsrcp, etc).
* Create a program to invoke nc_inq_filter_avail so that it is accessible
to shell scripts.
* Cleanup szip support to properly support szip
when HDF5 is disabled. This involves detecting
libsz separately from testing if HDF5 supports szip.
* Integrate shuffle and fletcher32 into the existing
filter API. This means that, for example, nc_def_var_fletcher32
is now a wrapper around nc_def_var_filter.
* Extend the Codec defaulting to allow multiple default shared libraries.
## Misc. Changes
* Modify configure.ac/CMakeLists.txt to look for the relevant
libraries implementing standard filters.
* Modify libnetcdf.settings to list available standard filters
(including deflate and szip).
* Add CMake test modules to locate libbz2 and libzstd.
* Cleanup the HDF5 memory manager function use in the plugins.
* remove unused file include//ncfilter.h
* remove tests for the HDF5 memory operations e.g. H5allocate_memory.
* Add flag to ncdump to force use of _Filter instead of _Deflate
or _Shuffle or _Fletcher32. Used for testing.
re: Issue https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2190
The primary purpose of this PR is to improve the utf8 support
for windows. This is persuant to a change in Windows that
supports utf8 natively (almost). The almost means that it is
still utf16 internally and the set of characters representable
by utf8 is larger than those representable by utf16.
This leaves open the question in the Issue about handling
the Windows 1252 character set.
This required the following changes:
1. Test the Windows build and major version in order to see if
native utf8 is supported.
2. If native utf8 is supported, Modify dpathmgr.c to call the 8-bit
version of the windows fopen() and open() functions.
3. In support of this, programs that use XGetOpt (Windows versions)
need to get the command line as utf8 and then parse to
arc+argv as utf8. This requires using a homegrown command line parser
named XCommandLineToArgvA.
4. Add a utility program called "acpget" that prints out the
current Windows code page and locale.
Additionally, some technical debt was cleaned up as follows:
1. Unify all the places which attempt to read all or a part
of a file into the dutil.c#NC_readfile code.
2. Similary unify all the code that creates temp files into
dutil.c#NC_mktmp code.
3. Convert almost all remaining calls to fopen() and open()
to NCfopen() and NCopen3(). This is to ensure that path management
is used consistently. This touches a number of files.
4. extern->EXTERNL as needed to get it to work under Windows.
re:
The current netcdf-c release has some problems with the mingw platform
on windows. Mostly they are path issues.
Changes to support mingw+msys2:
-------------------------------
* Enable option of looking into the windows registry to find
the mingw root path. In aid of proper path handling.
* Add mingw+msys as a specific platform in configure.ac and move testing
of the platform to the front so it is available early.
* Handle mingw X libncpoco (dynamic loader) properly even though
mingw does not yet support it.
* Handle mingw X plugins properly even though mingw does not yet support it.
* Alias pwd='pwd -W' to better handle paths in shell scripts.
* Plus a number of other minor compile irritations.
* Disallow the use of multiple nc_open's on the same file for windows
(and mingw) because windows does not seem to handle these properly.
Not sure why we did not catch this earlier.
* Add mountpoint info to dpathmgr.c to help support mingw.
* Cleanup dpathmgr conversions.
Known problems:
---------------
* I have not been able to get shared libraries to work, so
plugins/filters must be disabled.
* There is some kind of problem with libcurl that I have not solved,
so all uses of libcurl (currently DAP+Byterange) must be disabled.
Misc. other fixes:
------------------
* Cleanup the relationship between ENABLE_PLUGINS and various other flags
in CMakeLists.txt and configure.ac.
* Re-arrange the TESTDIRS order in Makefile.am.
* Add pseudo-breakpoint to nclog.[ch] for debugging.
* Improve the documentation of the path manager code in ncpathmgr.h
* Add better support for relative paths in dpathmgr.c
* Default the mode args to NCfopen to include "b" (binary) for windows.
* Add optional debugging output in various places.
* Make sure that everything builds with plugins disabled.
* Fix numerous (s)printf inconsistencies betweenb the format spec
and the arguments.
1. Issue https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2043
* FreeBSD build fails because of conflicts in defining the fileno() function. So removed all extern declarations of fileno.
2. Issue https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2124
* There were a couple of problems here.
* I was conflating msys with mingw and they need separate handling of paths. So treat mingw like windows.
* memio.c was not always writing the full content of the memory to file. Untested fix by properly accounting for zero size writes.
* Fix bug when skipping white space in tst_xcache.c
3. Issue https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2105
* On MINGW, bash and other POSIX utilities use a mounted root directory,
but executables compiled for Windows do not recognise the mount point.
Ensure that Windows paths are used in tests of Windows executables.
4. Issue https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2132
* Apparently the Intel C compiler on OSX defines isnan etc.
So disable declaration in dutil.c under that condition.
5. Fix and re-enable test_rcmerge.sh by allowing override of where to
look for .rc files
6. CMakeLists.txt suppresses certain ncdump directory tests because of differences in printing floats/doubles.
* Extend the list to include those that also fail under mingw.
* Suppress the mingw tests in ncdump/Makefile.am
Filter support has three goals:
1. Use the existing HDF5 filter implementations,
2. Allow filter metadata to be stored in the NumCodecs metadata format used by Zarr,
3. Allow filters to be used even when HDF5 is disabled
Detailed usage directions are define in docs/filters.md.
For now, the existing filter API is left in place. So filters
are defined using ''nc_def_var_filter'' using the HDF5 style
where the id and parameters are unsigned integers.
This is a big change since filters affect many parts of the code.
In the following, the terms "compressor" and "filter" and "codec" are generally
used synonomously.
### Filter-Related Changes:
* In order to support dynamic loading of shared filter libraries, a new library was added in the libncpoco directory; it helps to isolate dynamic loading across multiple platforms.
* Provide a json parsing library for use by plugins; this is created by merging libdispatch/ncjson.c with include/ncjson.h.
* Add a new _Codecs attribute to allow clients to see what codecs are being used; let ncdump -s print it out.
* Provide special headers to help support compilation of HDF5 filters when HDF5 is not enabled: netcdf_filter_hdf5_build.h and netcdf_filter_build.h.
* Add a number of new test to test the new nczarr filters.
* Let ncgen parse _Codecs attribute, although it is ignored.
### Plugin directory changes:
* Add support for the Blosc compressor; this is essential because it is the most common compressor used in Zarr datasets. This also necessitated adding a CMake FindBlosc.cmake file
* Add NCZarr support for the big-four filters provided by HDF5: shuffle, fletcher32, deflate (zlib), and szip
* Add a Codec defaulter (see docs/filters.md) for the big four filters.
* Make plugins work with windows by properly adding __declspec declaration.
### Misc. Non-Filter Changes
* Replace most uses of USE_NETCDF4 (deprecated) with USE_HDF5.
* Improve support for caching
* More fixes for path conversion code
* Fix misc. memory leaks
* Add new utility -- ncdump/ncpathcvt -- that does more or less the same thing as cygpath.
* Add a number of new test to test the non-filter fixes.
* Update the parsers
* Convert most instances of '#ifdef _MSC_VER' to '#ifdef _WIN32'
The netcdf-c code has to deal with a variety of platforms:
Windows, OSX, Linux, Cygwin, MSYS, etc. These platforms differ
significantly in the kind of file paths that they accept. So in
order to handle this, I have created a set of replacements for
the most common file system operations such as _open_ or _fopen_
or _access_ to manage the file path differences correctly.
A more limited version of this idea was already implemented via
the ncwinpath.h and dwinpath.c code. So this can be viewed as a
replacement for that code. And in path in many cases, the only
change that was required was to replace '#include <ncwinpath.h>'
with '#include <ncpathmgt.h>' and then replace file operation
calls with the NCxxx equivalent from ncpathmgr.h Note that
recently, the ncwinpath.h was renamed ncpathmgmt.h, so this pull
request should not require dealing with winpath.
The heart of the change is include/ncpathmgmt.h, which provides
alternate operations such as NCfopen or NCaccess and which properly
parse and rebuild path arguments to work for the platform on which
the code is executing. This mostly matters for Windows because of the
way that it uses backslash and drive letters, as compared to *nix*.
One important feature is that the user can do string manipulations
on a file path without having to worry too much about the platform
because the path management code will properly handle most mixed cases.
So one can for example concatenate a path suffix that uses forward
slashes to a Windows path and have it work correctly.
The conversion code is in libdispatch/dpathmgr.c, and the
important function there is NCpathcvt which does the proper
conversions to the local path format.
As a rule, most code should just replace their file operations with
the corresponding NCxxx ones defined in include/ncpathmgmt.h. These
NCxxx functions all call NCpathcvt on their path arguments before
executing the actual file operation.
In some rare cases, the client may need to directly use NCpathcvt,
but this should be avoided as much as possible. If there is a need
for supporting a new file operation not already in ncpathmgmt.h, then
use the code in dpathmgr.c as a template. Also please notify Unidata
so we can include it as a formal part or our supported operations.
Also, if you see an operation in the library that is not using the
NCxxx form, then please submit an issue so we can fix it.
Misc. Changes:
* Clean up the utf8 testing code; it is impossible to get some
tests to work under windows using shell scripts; the args do
not pass as utf8 but as some other encoding.
* Added an extra utf8 test case: test_unicode_path.sh
* Add a true test for HDF5 1.10.6 or later because as noted in
PR https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1794,
HDF5 changed its Windows file path handling.
The primary change is to support the use of a zip file as a
storage format. Simultaneously the .nz4 support is made obsolete
Use of zip requires the libzip support library, so a number of
changes to the build files (Makefile.am, CMakeLists.txt) are
necessary to locate and incorporate libzip. The nczarr_tests
tests are also changed to add zip testing.
Other changes:
* Make sure distcheck leaves no files around.
* Add some functions to netcdf_aux to export some functions of libnetcdf.
* Add a new error NC_EFOUND as the complement of NC_EEMPTY.
* Add tracing support to nclog and use it in libnczarr.
* Modify the zmap interface to support the writeonce semantics of zip.
* Create a new s3util.c to support a variety of S3 auxilliary functions.
* EXTERNL'ize a number of functions so they can be used in s3util.
* Add support for the S3 ListObjects CommonPrefixes mechanism
to improve search.
* Add experimental support for running nczarr X s3 tests against
the actual Amazon S3 cloud.
There were some irregularities in the flags for handling NCZarr S3 support.
The primary change is to regularize the flags controlling this to the following.
1. Automake: --enable-nczarr-s3 and CMake: ENABLE_NCZARR_S3
2. Automake: --enable-nczarr-s3-tests and CMake: ENABLE_NCZARR_S3_TESTS
Flag 1 indicates that NCZarr should be built with S3 support enabled.
Flag 2 indicates that the NCZarr S3 tests should be run
These two flags are separate because running the NCZarr S3 tests
requires access to protected S3 resources. Currently, running
these tests is restricted to Unidata personnel. However, users
may want to enable S3 support even if they cannot run the tests.
It is, of course, an error to specify 2 without specifying 1.
Additionally, if the AWS S3 SDK library is not found, then the NCZARR S3
support and testing must be disabled. Otherwise an error is signaled
during the build.
Some of these NCZarr and S3 changes are propagated to nc-config.
Misc. Other Changes:
1. Allow testing for CYGWIN or MSVC in shell scripts.
2. Add specific test for HDF5 library version 1.10.6.
This is encoded as "HDF5_UTF8_PATHS" because that is the first
version where HDF5 properly supports it under Windows. This is used
in hdf5internal/nc4_ndf5_ansi_to_utf8.
3. Add a AM Conditional -- AX_IGNORE -- for use in testing
when it is desirable to temporarily suppress Makefile code.
4. Add MULTIFILTER flag to CMakeLists.txt
disengagement of enable-netcdf4 from enable-hdf5.
That is, with the advent of nczarr, it is possible
to turn off hdf5 but still need netcdf-4 enabled
because nczarr uses libsrc4, but not libhdf5.
This change involves a bunch of things:
1. Modify configure.ac and CMakelist to make enable_hdf5
control if hdf5 support is provided. For back compatibility,
disable-netcdf4 is treated as disable-hdf5. But internally,
netcdf4 support is controlled only by the enabling of formats
that require it.
2. In support of #1, modify .travis.yml to use enable/disable-hdf5
instead of enable/disable-netcdf4.
3. test_common.in is modified to track selected features,
including enable-hdf5 and enable-s3-tests. This is used in
selected tests that mix netcdf-3 and netcdf4 tests.
4. The conflation of USE_HDF5 and USE_NETCDF4 is common in
code, tests, and build files, so all of those had to be weeded out.
5. It turns out that some of the NC4_dim functions really are HDF5 specific,
but are not treated as such. So they are moved from nc4dim.c to
hdf5dim.c or hdf5dispatch.c
6. Some generic functions in libhdf5 can be (and were) moved to libsrc4.
2. Fixed plugin building (nc_test4/hdf5plugins)
to be done properly by cmake and automake.
4. Duplicated part of the nc_test4 filter test code
in examples/C
An incomplete and untested set of hooks exist
for OS-X in nc_test4/findplugins.in. They need testing.
The problem was that for opendap, it is possible to use keywords
as identifiers
when there is no ambiguity. However, the DAP2
parser lost the case of the identifier used the lower case version.
Fix is to use the actual text of the symbol when it is used as an identifier.
Also added a test case for this (kwcase.*).
Additionally cleaned up some misc. dap2 testing problems.
1. ncdap_test/tst_ncdap3.sh was using an empty test set.
restored the testing of datasets.
2. as a consequence of #1, some tests needed to be updated with minor
tweeks.
3. fix dapmerge to handle multiple DODS_EXTRAS attributes.
4. modify buildattribute to suppress nul characters and terminate
the name at the first nul.
5. clean up various test scripts to remove residual, unused
references to obsolete netcdf-4 translation.
6. export e.g. NCDUMP from test_common.in so that non-top-level
shell scripts can access it.
1. Cleanup test_common.sh to expunge (mostly) the use of the VS
path value. This has the effect of being unable to use the
Visual Studio C compiler for shell tests.
2. There is a missing case in CMakeLists.txt so add
defaulting for HDF5_C_LIBRARY_hdf5 using HDF5_C_LIBRARY.
Ward should probably examine this to get it fixed correctly.
3. Put back ref to esg.md in docs/Doxyfile.in
4. Fix minor warning in dut8proc.h
1. When running under windows (as opposed to cygwin)
we need to make sure to not user /cygdrive/ file paths.
This was ocurring in libdap4/d4read.c, but may occur
elsewhere.
2. Shell scripts in the git repo are not being checked-out
with the executable mode set. Had core.filemode set to false.
Was a major hassle to fix.
Specific changes:
1. Add dap4 code: libdap4 and dap4_test.
Note that until the d4ts server problem is solved, dap4 is turned off.
2. Modify various files to support dap4 flags:
configure.ac, Makefile.am, CMakeLists.txt, etc.
3. Add nc_test/test_common.sh. This centralizes
the handling of the locations of various
things in the build tree: e.g. where is
ncgen.exe located. See nc_test/test_common.sh
for details.
4. Modify .sh files to use test_common.sh
5. Obsolete separate oc2 by moving it to be part of
netcdf-c. This means replacing code with netcdf-c
equivalents.
5. Add --with-testserver to configure.ac to allow
override of the servers to be used for --enable-dap-remote-tests.
6. There were multiple versions of nctypealignment code. Try to
centralize in libdispatch/doffset.c and include/ncoffsets.h
7. Add a unit test for the ncuri code because of its complexity.
8. Move the findserver code out of libdispatch and into
a separate, self contained program in ncdap_test and dap4_test.
9. Move the dispatch header files (nc{3,4}dispatch.h) to
.../include because they are now shared by modules.
10. Revamp the handling of TOPSRCDIR and TOPBUILDDIR for shell scripts.
11. Make use of MREMAP if available
12. Misc. minor changes e.g.
- #include <config.h> -> #include "config.h"
- Add some no-install headers to /include
- extern -> EXTERNL and vice versa as needed
- misc header cleanup
- clean up checking for misc. unix vs microsoft functions
13. Change copyright decls in some files to point to LICENSE file.
14. Add notes to RELEASENOTES.md
