[netCDF #JFK-776789]: ncdump 4.3.2 cannot dump data of the user-defined datatype(created from HDF5) correctly

Hi Kent,

Thanks for reporting this bug!  I can reproduce it with the file you 
referenced.  I've also created a Jira 
ticket you can subscribe to, if you want to follow progress on the fix:

  https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-305

--Russ

> I happen to use ncdump to check an HDF5 file that follows the netcdf4 
> extended model.
> The file includes a variable with a user-defined datatype(HDF5 compound 
> datatype).  The base datatype is HDF5 string.
> Ncdump -h can dump the header but just maps the string to char. However, when 
> I try to dump the data of the user-defined datatype, only the first character 
> appears.
> 
> The compound data type displayed by h5dump is something like:
> 
> DATATYPE "CERES_metadata_t" H5T_COMPOUND {
> H5T_STRING {
> STRSIZE 32;
> STRPAD H5T_STR_SPACEPAD;
> CSET H5T_CSET_ASCII;
> CTYPE H5T_C_S1;
> } "SHORTNAME";
> H5T_STRING {
> STRSIZE 32;
> STRPAD H5T_STR_SPACEPAD;
> CSET H5T_CSET_ASCII;
> CTYPE H5T_C_S1;
> } "RANGEBEGINNINGDATE";
> .......
> }
> And the data is:
> DATASET "/CERES_metadata" {
> DATATYPE  "/CERES_metadata_t"
> DATASPACE  SIMPLE { ( 1 ) / ( H5S_UNLIMITED ) }
> DATA {
> (0): {
> "CMSFC_AB                        ",
> "2004-07-01                      ",
> "00:00:00.000000                 ",
> "2004-07-31                      ",
> "00:59:59.999999                 ",
> "Passed                                                          ",
> "QA flag explanation                                                          
>                                                                               
>                                                                               
>                        ",
> "unknown                         ",
> "unknown                         ",
> "CER_SSF1deg-Hour_Terra-MODIS_TestSuite_000000.200407D01                      
>                    ",
> "Clib-20140204 TK5.2.18 HDF-4.2r6 HDFEOS- 2.18v SW\000\000\000 
> ANC\000\000\000     ",
> "2014-05-28T13:21:07             ",
> 64800,
> "NASA Langley Research Center, HOST - bf107.cluster.net OS - Linux            
>                                                                               
>                                                                               
>                        "
> }
> }
> 
> In ncdump, it becomes:
> 
> compound CERES_metadata_t {
> char SHORTNAME ;
> char RANGEBEGINNINGDATE ;
> char RANGEBEGINNINGTIME ;
> char RANGEENDINGDATE ;
> char RANGEENDINGTIME ;
> char AUTOMATICQUALITYFLAG ;
> char AUTOMATICQUALITYFLAGEXPLANATION ;
> char ASSOCIATEDPLATFORMSHORTNAME ;
> char ASSOCIATEDINSTRUMENTSHORTNAME ;
> char LOCALGRANULEID ;
> char LOCALVERSIONID ;
> char CERPRODUCTIONDATETIME ;
> int NUMBEROFRECORDS ;
> char PRODUCTGENERATIONLOC ;
> }; // CERES_metadata_t
> 
> And the data is:
> CERES_metadata =
> {"C", "2", "0", "2", "0", "P", "Q", "u", "u", "C", "C", "2", 64800, "N"} ;
> The file can be found under
> ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/ymuqun/ceres-converted/edition_4/CER_SSF1deg-Hour_Terra-MODIS_TestSuite_000000.200407D01-v1.h5
> 
> 
Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: JFK-776789
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed