re: issue https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1251
Assume that you have the URL to a remote dataset
which is a normal netcdf-3 or netcdf-4 file.
This PR allows the netcdf-c to read that dataset's
contents as a netcdf file using HTTP byte ranges
if the remote server supports byte-range access.
Originally, this PR was set up to access Amazon S3 objects,
but it can also access other remote datasets such as those
provided by a Thredds server via the HTTPServer access protocol.
It may also work for other kinds of servers.
Note that this is not intended as a true production
capability because, as is known, this kind of access to
can be quite slow. In addition, the byte-range IO drivers
do not currently do any sort of optimization or caching.
An additional goal here is to gain some experience with
the Amazon S3 REST protocol.
This architecture and its use documented in
the file docs/byterange.dox.
There are currently two test cases:
1. nc_test/tst_s3raw.c - this does a simple open, check format, close cycle
for a remote netcdf-3 file and a remote netcdf-4 file.
2. nc_test/test_s3raw.sh - this uses ncdump to investigate some remote
datasets.
This PR also incorporates significantly changed model inference code
(see the superceded PR https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1259).
1. It centralizes the code that infers the dispatcher.
2. It adds support for byte-range URLs
Other changes:
1. NC_HDF5_finalize was not being properly called by nc_finalize().
2. Fix minor bug in ncgen3.l
3. fix memory leak in nc4info.c
4. add code to walk the .daprc triples and to replace protocol=
fragment tag with a more general mode= tag.
Final Note:
Th inference code is still way too complicated. We need to move
to the validfile() model used by netcdf Java, where each
dispatcher is asked if it can process the file. This decentralizes
the inference code. This will be done after all the major new
dispatchers (PIO, Zarr, etc) have been implemented.
ret: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1162
The test nc_test/run_diskless2.sh fails
when LARGE_FILE_TESTS is enabled.
Since the goal of the test was to test out
diskless+persist on a reasonably large file,
I fixed by just limiting the file size to
1000000000L bytes.
https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1168https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1163https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1162
This PR partially fixes memory leaks in the netcdf-c library,
in the ncdump utility, and in some test cases.
The netcdf-c library now runs memory clean with the assumption
that the --disable-utilities option is used. The primary remaining
problem is ncgen. Once that is fixed, I believe the netcdf-c library
will run memory clean with no limitations.
Notes
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1. Memory checking was performed using gcc -fsanitize=address.
Valgrind-based testing has yet to be performed.
2. The pnetcdf, hdf4, and examples code has not been tested.
Misc. Non-leak changes
1. Make tst_diskless2 only run when netcdf4 is enabled (issue 1162)
2. Fix CmakeLists.txt to turn off logging if ENABLE_NETCDF_4 is OFF
3. Isolated all my debug scripts into a single top-level directory
called debug
4. Fix some USE_NETCDF4 dependencies in nc_test and nc_test4 Makefile.am
re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1154
Inadvertently, the behavior of NC_DISKLESS with nc_create() was
changed in release 4.6.1. Previously, the NC_WRITE flag needed
to be explicitly used with NC_DISKLESS in order to cause the
created file to be persisted to disk.
Additional analyis indicated that the current NC_DISKLESS
implementation was seriously flawed.
This PR attempts to clean up and regularize the situation with
respect to NC_DISKLESS control. One important aspect of diskless
operation is that there are two different notions of write.
1. The file is read-write vs read-only when using the netcdf API.
2. The file is persisted or not to disk at nc_close().
Previously, these two were conflated. The rules now are
as follows.
1. NC_DISKLESS + NC_WRITE means that the file is read/write using the netcdf API
2. NC_DISKLESS + NC_PERSIST means that the file is persisted to a disk file at nc_close.
3. NC_DISKLESS + NC_PERSIST + NC_WRITE means both 1 and 2.
The NC_PERSIST flag is new and takes over the obsolete NC_MPIPOSIX flag.
NC_MPIPOSIX is still defined, but is now an alias for the NC_MPIIO flag.
It is also now the case that for netcdf-4, NC_DISKLESS is independent
of NC_INMEMORY and in fact it is an error to specify both flags
simultaneously.
Finally, the MMAP code was fixed to use NC_PERSIST as well.
Also marked MMAP as deprecated.
Also added a test case to test various combinations of NC_DISKLESS,
NC_PERSIST, and NC_WRITE.
This PR affects a number of files and especially test cases
that used NC_DISKLESS.
Misc. Unrelated fixes
1. fixed some warnings in ncdump/dumplib.c
The fix includes the following changes.
1. Checking and using the default file format at file create time is now
done only when the create mode (argument cmode) does not include any
format related flags, i.e. NC_64BIT_OFFSET, NC_64BIT_DATA,
NC_CLASSIC_MODEL, and NC_NETCDF4.
2. Adjustment of cmode based on the default format is now done in
NC_create() only. The idea is to adjust cmode before entering the
dispatcher's file create subroutine.
3. Any adjustment of cmode is removed from all I/O dispatchers, i.e.
NC4_create(), NC3_create(), and NCP_create().
4. Checking for illegal cmode has been done in check_create_mode() called
in NC_create(). This commit removes the redundant checking from
NCP_create().
5. Remove PnetCDF tests in nc_test/tst_names.c, so it can focus on testing
all classic formats and netCDF4 formats.
Two new test programs are added. They can be used to test netCDF with and
without this commit.
1. nc_test/tst_default_format.c
2. nc_test/tst_default_format_pnetcdf.c (use when PnetCDF is enabled).
re: github issue https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-fortran/issues/82
This was originally discovered in the Fortran tests, but is
a problem in the C library.
The problem only occurred when using HDF5-1.10.x. The reason it
failed is that starting with 1.10, the hid_t type was changed
from 32 bits to 64 bits.
The function libsrc4/nc4memcb.c#NC4_image_init was using type int (doh!)
to return the hdf fileid instead of hid_t type. This, of course,
caused the id to be truncated and in turn later use of the id
caused hdf5 to fail.
Fix is trivial: replace int with hid_t. This also requires a related
change in nc4mem.c.
Also added the test case derived from the original Fortran code.
You would think I would learn...
Fix https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/962
1. remove the --disable-diskless option since it is no
longer needed. Similarly for CMakeLists.txt.
2. Fixed nc4files.c where BAIL and return were mixed
leading to situation where cleanup code was not
being invoked. This probably occurs elsewhere,
but I did not find any specifically.
and https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/708
Expand the NC_INMEMORY capabilities to support writing and accessing
the final modified memory.
Three new functions have been added:
nc_open_memio, nc_create_mem, and nc_close_memio.
The following new capabilities were added.
1. nc_open_memio() allows the NC_WRITE mode flag
so a chunk of memory can be passed in and be modified
2. nc_create_mem() allows the NC_INMEMORY flag to be set
to cause the created file to be kept in memory.
3. nc_close_mem() allows the final in-memory contents to be
retrieved at the time the file is closed.
4. A special flag, NC_MEMIO_LOCK, is provided to ensure that
the provided memory will not be freed or reallocated.
Note the following.
1. If nc_open_memio() is called with NC_WRITE, and NC_MEMIO_LOCK is not set,
then the netcdf-c library will take control of the incoming memory.
This means that the original memory block should not be freed
but the block returned by nc_close_mem() must be freed.
2. If nc_open_memio() is called with NC_WRITE, and NC_MEMIO_LOCK is set,
then modifications to the original memory may fail if the space available
is insufficient.
Documentation is provided in the file docs/inmemory.md.
A test case is provided: nc_test/tst_inmemory.c driven by
nc_test/run_inmemory.sh
WARNING: changes were made to the dispatch table for
the close entry. From int (*close)(int) to int (*close)(int,void*).
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