Tasks for the last month of ESoWC

[dvalters]

A 'master issue' to collate and prioritise the remaining tasks and deliverables to check-off:

Can link these to issues/pull-requests

Variables

• Variable represented as a directory.
  • When coordinates follow CF Convention, variable should be split into subdirectories along time and vertical axes (e.g. each time/vertical coordinate represented as a subdirectory). Agreed to leave this for future development as it would require changing substantial amounts of the code right now.
• Regular Variable’s data represented at least as a binary file; additional representations (text, png) are welcome but optional.
  • Text file representation of variable (current default)
• Dimension Variable’s data represented as an editable text file containing a list of coordinate values
• Renaming a variable directory renames corresponding variable in NetCDF
• Copying a variable directory creates new variable in NetCDF

Attributes

• Deleting attribute text file removes corresponding attribute from NetCDF
• Renaming attribute text file renames corresponding attribute in NetCDF
• Creating new attribute text file creates new attribute in NetCDF
• Editing contents of attribute text file modifies value of attribute in NetCDF
• Changes do not result in inconsistent dataset: e.g. renaming Dimension Variable should also rename the corresponding dimension and vice versa

Technical

• Must run on Linux (SuSE)
• Must run on native system and in virtual environment
• Must be able to read NetCDF3 and NetCDF4-classic files
• Must be able to output NetCDF3 and NetCDF4-classic files
• Must be able to define/modify variable types (e.g. double ->float)
• Must have an option to include / exclude scaling factors and offset (user-specified and automatic)
• Must be able to run from a script (e.g. python)

[dvalters]

It would be nice to have unit and/or funtional integration tests to test as many of these as possible in the testing suite.