Hi Martin, You are correct in that there is no C++ API to create an external link. We have not had the resources to implement all C APIs in C++.
You can use the H5Lcreate_external C routine to create an external link. You must pass in both a link creation and a link access property list identifier to H5Lcreate_external. Those property list identifiers can be obtained with C++ calls. For example: lcpl.getId(). -Barbara From: Hdf-forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Shetty Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Hdf-forum] External links in C++ API? Hello from Copenhagen all, I'm from Tobias' group here at ESS data management. Ran into a bit of an interesting problem. We want to create an external link to a different data file, as defined in the C API here: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/RM_H5L.html#Link-CreateExternal But we want to do this using the C++ API. I can find ways to create hard and soft links, as described here: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/cpplus_RM/class_h5_1_1_common_f_g.html#a5cdfe34b7504b51aa6ee2db7aa821b97 but there doesn't seem to be any implementation for creating external links in C++? What gives? Cheers :) Martin
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