What do you mean by the DRdata datatype? I am not sure what you mean or how
I would use it. This is my first time working with HDF5, sorry for some
newbie questions.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 1:05 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote:

> Use the DRdata datatype that's already in the file.
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Steven Walton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> So I don't have too much experience with compound data but I thought I'd
>> take a crack at it. I had an issue a while ago trying to use pointer
>> arrays, hdf5 allowing me to use float* but not float**. There are two ways
>> you can rewrite this, assuming the data isn't rank 1. You could use a ctype
>> array and use malloc to allocate the space, or you can use
>> boost::multi_array. I found the latter to be nicer to work with. Data needs
>> to be contiguous for hdf5 to understand it. If that doesn't work are you
>> able to pull out the whole compound data at once? It appears that you have
>> a nested structure.
>>
>> If I am reading this right you have
>> typedef struct
>> {
>>   float f_i;
>>   float f_q;
>> } iq_data;
>>
>> typedef struct
>> {
>>   bunch of stuff
>>   iq_data nested;
>> } DRdata;
>>
>> You could also always try opening the data with python's h5py. I find the
>> tool useful as it just reads whatever data you throw at it.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Todd Dobmeyer <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Binh-Minh
>>>
>>> Making your change keeps me from crashing, but unfortunately doesn't get
>>> any of the data.  So to better understand my data, I have 7500 pieces of
>>> DATA in the DATASPACE. Inside 1 piece of data is an array of Compound
>>> objects each containing 2 floats. The Compound object is called iq_data and
>>> the 2 floats inside are f_i and f_q.
>>>
>>> I originally did the 2D array thinking I needed the outside dimension to
>>> be 7500 and the inner dimensions to be 1000. But now I think I need a 1D
>>> array that holds 7500*1000 compound objects or 7500*1000*2 floats. However,
>>> I cannot figure out how to read the data. Do I read "iq_data" or do I try
>>> and read "f_i" and "f_q"?
>>>
>>> Thanks again and I hope I clarified things!
>>> Todd
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:14 AM, Binh-Minh Ribler <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Todd,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure I understood your data completely, but I wonder what you
>>>> will get if you change this line:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> complex_t** iqData = new complex_t*[nelems];
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> to:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> complex_t* iqData = new complex_t[nelems];
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and read without the for loop...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Binh-Minh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From:* Hdf-forum <[email protected]> on behalf of
>>>> Todd Dobmeyer <[email protected]>
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, July 11, 2016 3:10 PM
>>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>>> *Subject:* [Hdf-forum] Reading Nested Compound objects in C++
>>>>
>>>> All
>>>>
>>>> I have an HDF5 file I need to read in a C++ application. I performed an
>>>> h5dump on the data and have the following structure (with many items
>>>> removed that I am not interested in). I have successfully read in all 7500
>>>> values of "num_samps" using the C++ HDF5 library. What I am struggling to
>>>> figure out how to read is the array of compound "iq_data". I know in the
>>>> datatype it says there are 1000 compound objects. I don't know if I can get
>>>> this value out of the DataType, but I do know the num_samps points to this
>>>> array size as well, which is fine since I can read this. Can any of you
>>>> help me figure out how to read the "iq_data" array. Below is the sample
>>>> data followed by my code I have so far. In my code "numSamps" is good, but
>>>> "iqData" is not holding anything useful. I am sure I am missing something.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>> Todd Dobmeyer
>>>>
>>>> --------------SAMPLE DATA-------------------------
>>>>
>>>> HDF5 "hdfFile.be01" {
>>>> GROUP "/" {
>>>>    DATATYPE "DRdata" H5T_COMPOUND {
>>>>       H5T_ARRAY { [5] H5T_STD_U32LE } "guid";
>>>>       H5T_STD_I32LE "version";
>>>>       ...
>>>>       H5T_STD_U32LE "num_samps";
>>>>       ...
>>>>       H5T_STD_U32LE "sequence_dummy";
>>>>       H5T_ARRAY { [1000] H5T_COMPOUND {
>>>>          H5T_IEEE_F32LE "f_i";
>>>>          H5T_IEEE_F32LE "f_q";
>>>>       } } "iq_data";
>>>>    }
>>>>    DATASET "DRx1data" {
>>>>       DATATYPE  "/DRx1"
>>>>       DATASPACE  SIMPLE { ( 7500 ) / ( H5S_UNLIMITED ) }
>>>>       DATA {
>>>>       (0): {
>>>>             [ 352430272, 25602, 2314, 1442149219, 43629 ],
>>>>             1,
>>>>             1.44215e+09,
>>>>             1442149219,
>>>>             0,
>>>>             1,
>>>>             1,
>>>>             0,
>>>>             1,
>>>>             0,
>>>>             0,
>>>>             0,
>>>>             3,
>>>>             0,
>>>>             0,
>>>>             0,
>>>>             0,
>>>>             1,
>>>>             31095000,
>>>>             20000,
>>>>             0,
>>>>             1000,
>>>>             1000, // (this is num_samps)
>>>>             1,
>>>>             1000,
>>>>             [ {
>>>>                   1.09068e+09,
>>>>                   4.53469e+08
>>>>                }, {
>>>>                   4.03303e+08,
>>>>                   4.11846e+08
>>>>                }, {
>>>>                   -1.35295e+08,
>>>>                   -1.70107e+08
>>>>                }, ...
>>>>
>>>> --------------------CODE------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> typedef struct {
>>>>
>>>>     float f_i;
>>>>
>>>>     float f_q;
>>>>
>>>> } complex_t;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>>>>
>>>> {
>>>>
>>>>     std::string path = "/data/hdfFile.be01";
>>>>
>>>>     // Open the file, dataset, and dataspace
>>>>
>>>>     H5::H5File file(path, H5F_ACC_RDONLY);
>>>>
>>>>     H5::DataSet dataset = file.openDataSet("DRx1data");
>>>>
>>>>     H5::DataSpace dataspace = dataset.getSpace();
>>>>
>>>>         // Get the number of elements and number of samples
>>>>
>>>>     int nelems = dataspace.getSimpleExtentNpoints();
>>>>
>>>>     int numSamps[nelems];
>>>>
>>>>         // Create number of samples type
>>>>
>>>>     H5::CompType sampsType(sizeof(uint));
>>>>
>>>>     sampsType.insertMember("num_samps", 0, H5::PredType::STD_U32LE);
>>>>
>>>>         // Read the number of samples
>>>>
>>>>     dataset.read(numSamps, sampsType);
>>>>
>>>>         // Now try to read the I/Q data
>>>>
>>>>     H5::CompType iqDataType(sizeof(complex_t));
>>>>
>>>>     iqDataType.insertMember("f_i", HOFFSET(complex_t, f_i), 
>>>> H5::PredType::NATIVE_FLOAT);
>>>>
>>>>     iqDataType.insertMember("f_q", HOFFSET(complex_t, f_q), 
>>>> H5::PredType::NATIVE_FLOAT);
>>>>
>>>>     complex_t** iqData = new complex_t*[nelems];
>>>>
>>>>     for(int i = 0 ; i < nelems ; ++i)
>>>>
>>>>     {
>>>>
>>>>         iqData[i] = new complex_t[numSamps[i]];
>>>>
>>>>     }
>>>>
>>>>     dataset.read(iqData, iqDataType);
>>>>
>>>>
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