Hi Martijn,
  In h5dump, I see that datasets that use a committed types have the path to 
the type identified.  E.g.:


DATASET "dset1" {

      DATATYPE  "/dtype1"

      DATASPACE  SIMPLE { ( 10 ) / ( 10 ) }

      DATA {

      (0): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

      }

}

DATATYPE "dtype1" H5T_IEEE_F32LE;



Is that not sufficient to see how the committed type is used?


In HDFView, the committed types are shown in the Tree View, but dataset's that 
reference them don't indicate this.  So that would be a good feature to add.  
I've created an issue to track this request.


Regards,

John Readey

The HDF Group



From: Werner Benger <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Sunday, November 16, 2014 at 6:41 AM
To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] Committed datatypes in HDFView/h5dump

Hi Martijn,

 if you use h5ls, then it will indicate named data types as being "shared" such 
as:


 h5ls -rv LOD.f5/t=000000000.0000000000/Triangulation/Faces/Points/Positions
Opened "LOD.f5" with sec2 driver.
t=000000000.0000000000/Triangulation/Faces/Points/Positions Dataset 
{94525/94525}
    Location:  1:1442029
    Links:     1
    Modified:  2014-09-17 01:34:18 Central Daylight Time
    Storage:   1134300 logical bytes, 1134300 allocated bytes, 100.00% 
utilization
    Type:      shared-1:1440965 struct {
                   "i"                +0    native 32-bit field
                   "j"                +4    native 32-bit field
                   "k"                +8    native 32-bit field
               } 12 bytes


If you do an h5ls on the type itself, it will show its attributes and the 
shared-identifier as well:

 h5ls -rv LOD.f5/Charts/triangular/SinglePrecision/Point
Opened "LOD.f5" with sec2 driver.
Charts/triangular/SinglePrecision/Point Type
    Attribute: ChartDomain scalar
        Type:      11-byte null-terminated ASCII string
        Data:  "triangular"
    Attribute: F5::CellDimensionality scalar
        Type:      native int
        Data:  2
    Attribute: MemoryOrder {3}
        Type:      native int
        Data:  1, 0, -1
    Location:  1:1440965
    Links:     2
    Modified:  2014-09-17 01:34:18 Central Daylight Time
    Type:      shared-1:1440965 struct {
                   "i"                +0    native 32-bit field
                   "j"                +4    native 32-bit field
                   "k"                +8    native 32-bit field
               } 12 bytes


Cheers,

      Werner


On 16.11.2014 02:12, Martijn Jasperse wrote:
Hi all,
I'd like to be able to tell in HDFView/h5dump when a dataset has a committed 
datatype. Ideally I'd like a path to the committed type be provided (a la 
H5Iget_name), but it would be sufficient to identify it as being a committed 
type. It would be very useful to me for the debugging tools to display this and 
not have to use my tools to check their files.

I'm using committed types to implement a type of units handling, and it works 
great, except that the standard tools are not very helpful in working with 
them. It would be excellent to add this feature to HDFView and/or h5dump, but I 
would also be interested in other approaches and/or workarounds.

Cheers,
Martijn



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