Re: NullPointerException during aggregation

Hi Jon, sorry its taken so long to reply:

regExp should work, it looks like you need regExp="NATL.*" or something (I 
never remember regexp expressions for more than 24 hours), as it is, it will only match a 
file named NATL.

Ill try to deal more greacefully with the error.

Jon Blower wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As a follow-up question, should it be possible to use the regExp
> option in the <scan> element to only attempt to match filenames that
> match a given regular expression?  I tried to do this with the example
> below, i.e.:
>
> <netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
>   <aggregation dimName="time" type="joinNew">
>     <variableAgg name="temperature"/>
>     <variableAgg name="salinity"/>
>     <scan location="/path/to/files/" suffix=".nc" regExp="NATL"
> dateFormatMark="NATL_1_#ddMMyyyy" />
>   </aggregation>
> </netcdf>
>
> but it gave a different NullPointerException (in
> AggregationNew.java:51, version 2.2.17), which seems to be because the
> aggregation is not picking up any files at all.  Should regexps work
> with joinNew?
>
> Thanks, Jon
>
>
> On 07/11/06, Jon Blower <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Yes, this problem is still evident in 2.2.17 (I downloaded the
> > toolsUI-2.2.17.jar file).
> >
> > Thanks, Jon
> >
> > On 03/11/06, John Caron <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Hi Jon:
> > >
> > > Can you check if you get the same error in the latest 2.2.17 release?
> > > I have fixed some bugs in aggregation, but im not sure if thats one 
> > of them.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > Jon Blower wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm having problems working with NcML aggregations and the 2.2.16
> > > > version of the Java NetCDF libraries.  I would like to aggregate
> > > > files:
> > > >
> > > > NATL_1_28082006.nc
> > > > NATL_1_29082006.nc
> > > > NATL_1_30082006.nc
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > along the time dimension.  I tried an NcML file like this:
> > > >
> > > > <netcdf 
> > xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
> > > >   <aggregation dimName="time" type="joinNew">
> > > >     <variableAgg name="temperature"/>
> > > >     <variableAgg name="salinity"/>
> > > >     <scan location="/path/to/files/" suffix=".nc"
> > > > dateFormatMark="NATL_1_#ddMMyyyy" />
> > > >   </aggregation>
> > > > </netcdf>
> > > >
> > > > This gave me a NullPointerException:
> > > >
> > > > java.lang.NullPointerException
> > > >     java.util.Calendar.setTime(Calendar.java:1032)
> > > >     java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:785)
> > > >     java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:778)
> > > >     java.text.DateFormat.format(DateFormat.java:314)
> > > >     
> > ucar.nc2.units.DateFormatter.toDateTimeStringISO(DateFormatter.java:184)
> > > >
> > > >     ucar.nc2.ncml.Aggregation.crawlDirectory(Aggregation.java:817)
> > > >
> > > > I think I know why this is.  There are other files in the same
> > > > directory of the form "NATL_120_28082006.nc" and I think the
> > > > aggregator is trying to match these.  Can I arrange it so that only
> > > > files that match the pattern "NATL_1_#ddMMyyyy.nc" are aggregated, 
> > and
> > > > all others are simply ignored?
> > > >
> > > > I am reluctant to change the directory structure of my data because
> > > > other applications may depend on it.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > Jon
> > > >
> > >
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