[IDV #OAY-172839]: Loading of ISCCP-DX files failed

1. NCDC is running old 3.16 server.
2. There is apparently no IOSP for that file format. I see that ISCCP may be 
part of the NCDC development however.

> Hi Bruno-
> 
> > Full Name: Bruno Duerr
> > Email Address: address@hidden
> > Organization: Sunergy GmbH
> > Package Version: 2.8 build date:2010-01-15 20:48 UTC
> > Operating System: Linux
> > Hardware: Java: home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.17/jre version: 
> > 1.6.0_17 j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4)
> > Description of problem: Hi all
> >
> > I tried to load different files with IDV web start application -> Dashboard 
> > -> Data Choosers -> General -> Catalogs using catalog 
> > http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/isccp-dx/catalog.xml. All attempts 
> > failed with the following error message:
> 
> There are two different issues here:
> 
> - the server is having trouble with the .gz extension
> - the data format is not one that the IDV understands.
> 
> I'm going to transfer this over to the TDS group at Unidata for their 
> investigation on the server issue.  We do not have plans at this time to 
> support the ISCCP DX format in the IDV.
> 
> Don Murray
> > There was an error loading the data:
> > Error creating data source:dods.grid with: 
> > http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov:-1/thredds/dodsC/isccp-dx/2004/MET-7/ISCCP.DX.0.MET-7.2004.11.11.1200.EUM.gz
> > Grid data source failed making data set: 
> > dods://www.ncdc.noaa.gov:-1/thredds/dodsC/isccp-dx/2004/MET-7/ISCCP.DX.0.MET-7.2004.11.11.1200.EUM.gz
> > Error parsing server Error object!
> > Encountered '-1' at line 2, column 12.
> > Was expecting:
> > <INT> ...
> >
> > I also tried to download 
> > http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/fileServer/isccp-dx/2004/MET-7/ISCCP.DX.0.MET-7.2004.11.11.1200.EUM.gz,
> >  I unzipped it and loaded the file from the local disk, but the file format 
> > was not recognised.
> >
> > Thank you for your help!
> >
> >
> > ******************
> > Stack trace:
> > java.io.IOException: Error parsing server Error object!
> > Encountered '-1' at line 2, column 12.
> > Was expecting:
> > <INT> ...
> >
> > at ucar.nc2.dods.DODSNetcdfFile.<init>(DODSNetcdfFile.java:244)
> > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDODS(NetcdfDataset.java:783)
> > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openOrAcquireFile(NetcdfDataset.java:657)
> > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:434)
> > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:523)
> > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:103)
> > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:89)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.doMakeDataSet(GeoGridDataSource.java:1084)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1106)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterCreation(GeoGridDataSource.java:471)
> > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1565)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1992)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1909)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1843)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1816)
> > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:938)
> > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.makeDataSource(XmlChooser.java:260)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.ThreddsHandler.processNodes(ThreddsHandler.java:788)
> > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.ThreddsHandler.doLoad(ThreddsHandler.java:646)
> > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.doLoadInThread(XmlChooser.java:695)
> > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> > at 
> > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
> > at 
> > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
> > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1068)
> > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1096)
> >
> >
> >
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OAY-172839
Department: Support THREDDS
Priority: Urgent
Status: Closed