[netCDFJava #BNA-191717]: chunking in Java

Hi Jeff,

An alternate approach would be to avoid the whole chunking issue by writing 
netCDF-3 files instead of netCDF-4 files. But, if you do that, you don't get to 
take advantage of compression.

If you want to stick with netCDF-4, I included a few details and pointers to 
the needed methods and classes in my response on the netcdf-java list 

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/netcdf-java/2014/msg00055.html

But I think it boils down to a few lines of code. I haven't tested this but 
interspersed in your code below are a few lines that I think should get you 
going.

Ethan

On 5/2/2014 8:54 AM, Jeff Johnson - NOAA Affiliate wrote:> New Ticket: chunking 
in Java
> 
> How do you set the chunk size via the Java API? I'm trying to get my file
> size down and was told by Ethan from unidata to change the chunk size from
> 1 to 2000 on the unlimited dimension, but I don't see an API to do that.
> 
> Below is my sample code.
> 
> import ucar.ma2.ArrayDouble;
> import ucar.ma2.ArrayLong;
> import ucar.ma2.DataType;
> import ucar.ma2.InvalidRangeException;
> import ucar.nc2.*;
> 
> import java.io.IOException;
> import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
> import java.nio.file.Files;
> import java.nio.file.Path;
> import java.util.ArrayList;
> import java.util.List;
> 
> public class TestGenFile2 {
>   public static void main(String[] args) {
>     NetcdfFileWriter dataFile = null;
> 
>     try {
>       try {
> 
>         // define the file
>         String filePathName = "output.nc";
> 
>         // delete the file if it already exists
>         Path path = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(filePathName);
>         Files.deleteIfExists(path);
> 
>         // enter definition mode for this NetCDF-4 file
>         dataFile =
> NetcdfFileWriter.createNew(NetcdfFileWriter.Version.netcdf4, filePathName);

replace the above line with

Nc4Chunking chunkingStrategy = 
Nc4ChunkingStrategyImpl.factory(Nc4Chunking.Strategy.standard, 0, false);
NetcdfFileWriter.createNew(NetcdfFileWriter.Version.netcdf4, filePathName, 
chunkingStrategy);

 
>         // create the root group
>         Group rootGroup = dataFile.addGroup(null, null);
> 
>         // define dimensions, in this case only one: time
>         Dimension timeDim = dataFile.addUnlimitedDimension("time");
>         List<Dimension> dimList = new ArrayList<>();
>         dimList.add(timeDim);
> 
>         // define variables
>         Variable time = dataFile.addVariable(rootGroup, "time",
> DataType.DOUBLE, dimList);
>         dataFile.addVariableAttribute(time, new Attribute("units",
> "milliseconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"));

Add the following line here

dataFile.addVariableAttribute(time, new Attribute("_ChunkSize", new Integer( 
2000)));


> 
>         // create the file
>         dataFile.create();
> 
>         // create 1-D arrays to hold data values (time is the dimension)
>         ArrayDouble.D1 timeArray = new ArrayDouble.D1(1);
> 
>         int[] origin = new int[]{0};
>         long startTime = 1398978611132L;
> 
>         // write the records to the file
>         for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
>           // load data into array variables
>           double value = startTime++;
>           timeArray.set(timeArray.getIndex(), value);
> 
>           origin[0] = i;
> 
>           // write a record
>           dataFile.write(time, origin, timeArray);
>         }
>       } finally {
>         if (null != dataFile) {
>           // close the file
>           dataFile.close();
>         }
>       }
>     } catch (IOException | InvalidRangeException e) {
>       e.printStackTrace();
>     }
>   }
> }
> 
> thanks-
> jeff
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BNA-191717
Department: Support netCDF Java
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed