[LDM #RQD-888533]: pqact errors after upgrade to 6.13.0

Hi Dave,

First, I'm glad that the test of wrapping netCDF Perl decoders with a
shell script worked/is working!  This gives us (Steve actually) another
clue as to what may be happening in the 6.13.x version of 'pqact'.

re:
> The mos script is trickier because I have to deal with the replacements 
> strings and parenthetical subexpressions:
> 
> WMO     ^FOUS11 KWNO ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9]) PIPE    mos2nc -l 
> logs/lamp2nc.%Y%m%d.asc etc/lamp_mos.cdl 
> data/dec_data/mos/lamp_mos/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1/lamp_mos.(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1.\2.nc

Yup, the sketchy script that I sent can be a LOT more generic and handle
all of your netCDF Perl decoder invocations in a single script.  What
I mean by this is that all of the command line arguments to the various
netCDF Perl decoders AND the name of the decoder to run could be passed
into the script.  This would keep the onus of evaluating parenthetical
references like the ones in:

/mos/lamp_mos/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1/lamp_mos.(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1.\2.nc

in 'pqact' so you wouldn't have to do it in your script (which would
be nasty at best).

Quick example of what I have in mind:

WMO ^S[AP].* .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9])
   PIPE     metar2nc.sh metar2nc -t 30 -l logs -d data/dec_data/obs/metar 
etc/metar.cdl

The command line options that would need to be picked up in 'metar2nc.sh' are:

$1 - metar2nc
$2 - -t
$3 - 30
$4 - -l
$5 - logs
$6 - -d
$7 - data/dec_data/obs/metar
$8 - etc/metar.cdl

One could, of course hard code all of the command line options in a script 
tailored
for the particular netCDF Perl decoder and then only deal with the items that
need to be evaluated/expanded by 'pqact'.  Here is what I have in mind for 
mos2nc:

WMO     ^FOUS11 KWNO ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9])
     PIPE    mos2nc.sh logs/lamp2nc.%Y%m%d.asc etc/lamp_mos.cdl 
data/dec_data/mos/lamp_mos/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1/lamp_mos.(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1.\2.nc

$1 - the full log file name expanded from ogs/lamp2nc.%Y%m%d.asc 
etc/lamp_mos.cdl
$2 - the CDL file to use
$3 - the fully qualified name of the netCDF file containing the decoded data 
expanded
     from 
data/dec_data/mos/lamp_mos/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1/lamp_mos.(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)

The invocation of 'mos2nc' inside of the 'mos2nc.sh' script would look like:

cat | mos2nc -l $1 $2 $3

One small aside:

- it is not necessary to 'cat' STDIN to the decoder inside the shell script 
since
  each of the decoders reads from STDIN anyway

  So, the 'mos2nc' decoder invocation can be written as:

mos2nc -l $1 $2 $3

  I included the 'cat' so that the input product could be written to disk
  and then used if there were any hiccups in running the wrapped decoder.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: RQD-888533
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed