2 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Dennis Heimbigner	11fe00ea05	Add filter support to NCZarr ... 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'	2021-09-02 17:04:26 -06:00
Dennis Heimbigner	59e04ae071	This PR adds EXPERIMENTAL support for accessing data in the ... cloud using a variant of the Zarr protocol and storage format. This enhancement is generically referred to as "NCZarr". The data model supported by NCZarr is netcdf-4 minus the user-defined types and the String type. In this sense it is similar to the CDF-5 data model. More detailed information about enabling and using NCZarr is described in the document NUG/nczarr.md and in a [Unidata Developer's blog entry](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/developer/en/entry/overview-of-zarr-support-in). WARNING: this code has had limited testing, so do use this version for production work. Also, performance improvements are ongoing. Note especially the following platform matrix of successful tests: Platform | Build System | S3 support ------------------------------------ Linux+gcc | Automake | yes Linux+gcc | CMake | yes Visual Studio | CMake | no Additionally, and as a consequence of the addition of NCZarr, major changes have been made to the Filter API. NOTE: NCZarr does not yet support filters, but these changes are enablers for that support in the future. Note that it is possible (probable?) that there will be some accidental reversions if the changes here did not correctly mimic the existing filter testing. In any case, previously filter ids and parameters were of type unsigned int. In order to support the more general zarr filter model, this was all converted to char*. The old HDF5-specific, unsigned int operations are still supported but they are wrappers around the new, char* based nc_filterx_XXX functions. This entailed at least the following changes: 1. Added the files libdispatch/dfilterx.c and include/ncfilter.h 2. Some filterx utilities have been moved to libdispatch/daux.c 3. A new entry, "filter_actions" was added to the NCDispatch table and the version bumped. 4. An overly complex set of structs was created to support funnelling all of the filterx operations thru a single dispatch "filter_actions" entry. 5. Move common code to from libhdf5 to libsrc4 so that it is accessible to nczarr. Changes directly related to Zarr: 1. Modified CMakeList.txt and configure.ac to support both C and C++ -- this is in support of S3 support via the awd-sdk libraries. 2. Define a size64_t type to support nczarr. 3. More reworking of libdispatch/dinfermodel.c to support zarr and to regularize the structure of the fragments section of a URL. Changes not directly related to Zarr: 1. Make client-side filter registration be conditional, with default off. 2. Hack include/nc4internal.h to make some flags added by Ed be unique: e.g. NC_CREAT, NC_INDEF, etc. 3. cleanup include/nchttp.h and libdispatch/dhttp.c. 4. Misc. changes to support compiling under Visual Studio including: * Better testing under windows for dirent.h and opendir and closedir. 5. Misc. changes to the oc2 code to support various libcurl CURLOPT flags and to centralize error reporting. 6. By default, suppress the vlen tests that have unfixed memory leaks; add option to enable them. 7. Make part of the nc_test/test_byterange.sh test be contingent on remotetest.unidata.ucar.edu being accessible. Changes Left TO-DO: 1. fix provenance code, it is too HDF5 specific.	2020-06-28 18:02:47 -06:00