Hi All,
The CF-JSON structure was generally based on CDL (as produced by ncdump)
which stores the data in a separate section. The key requirement is the
same as for CDL.
But I do see the logic of just including it in the variable section itself.
I haven't had a chance to properly review NCO JSON, but it sounds like we
may be very close. This Is there a published specification anywhere? - so
far I have just looked at various actual file dumps.
One thing I prefer about CF-JSON is the multidimensional arrays. Both NCO
and CovJSON have flattened arrays (as does CDL). I think web devs would
probably prefer the former and there is less chance of an array wrangling
mistake. I also like the option to dump time as ISO8601 because again I
think web devs appreciate the ease of this rather than having to support
time conversions and calendar issues.
We are at an early stage so could easily merge.
Dave
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
wrote:
> Just looked a tiny bit more at CF_JSON, and see an issue right away:
>
> "The data object contains the actual data for each variable as its
> key:value members. Each data key MUST be the same as it variable ID key."
>
> {
> ...
> "variables": {
> "tmp2m": {
> "dimensions": ["time","latitude","longitude"]
> }
> ...
> "data": {
> "tmp2m": [
> [[1.2,3.4,5.6 ...],
> [2.3,6.5,8.7 ...],
> ...
> ],
> ]
> ...
> }
>
> JSON can be arbitrarily nested -- so why store the "data" object
> separately from the variable objects, using a key to map them?
>
> why not:
>
> {
> ...
> "variables": { "tmp2m": {"dimensions": ["time","latitude","longitude"]
> "attributes": {"units": "ms^{-1}",
> "long_name": "Easterly
> component of wind",
> "standard_name":
> "eastward_wind"
> },
> "data": [[1.2,3.4,5.6 ...],
> [2.3,6.5,8.7 ...],
> ...
> ],
> },
> ...
> }
> }
>
> I think that's more or less how NCO's JSON works, and it keeps everything
> about a variable all in one place -- easier for parsing tools, etc. And
> maps well to the Python netCDF4 data structure anyway.
>
> -CHB
>
>
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