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[THREDDS #DGS-484777]: TDS maxStrlen64 attribute injection?

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  • Subject: [THREDDS #DGS-484777]: TDS maxStrlen64 attribute injection?
  • Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 09:51:08 -0600
The maxstrlen attribute is coming the fact that the file is being
accessed using the DAP2 (/dodsC/) protocol. Is the user accessing the
server using the netcdf-c library?


> 
> Dear TDS support
> 
> I’m running a production instance of TDS 4.6.10
> 
> One of our users is reporting that TDS seems to be injecting a maxStrlen64 
> attribute into downloaded data, which is subsequently causing strings within 
> the data to be truncated to 64 chars. Is it possible to override this 
> behaviour?
> 
> eg:
> 
> [jgs900@raijin3 ~]$ module load netcdf
> [jgs900@raijin3 ~]$ ncdump -h 
> http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/dodsC/fj6/PTHA/AustPTHA_1/SOURCE_ZONES/sunda/TSUNAMI_EVENTS/unit_source_statistics_sunda.nc
>  | grep maxStrlen64
> maxStrlen64 = 64 ;
> char initial_condition_file(table_rows, maxStrlen64) ;
> char tide_gauge_file(table_rows, maxStrlen64) ;
> 
> whereas:
> 
> [jgs900@raijin3 ~]$ ncdump -h 
> /g/data/fj6/PTHA/AustPTHA_1/SOURCE_ZONES/sunda/TSUNAMI_EVENTS/unit_source_statistics_sunda.nc
>  | grep maxStrlen64
> [jgs900@raijin3 ~]$
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help, Jon
> 
> ----
> Jon Smillie
> Virtual Laboratories
> National Computational Infrastructure
> nci.org.au
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

=Dennis Heimbigner
  Unidata


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: DGS-484777
Department: Support THREDDS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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