It depends on whether you are using the unlimited dimension or not. but,
i would say that file size will be a reasonable proxy for completeness.
Unfortunately, theres no exposed method for calculating the file size
-though its rather easy, you can look at ucar.nc2.N3header.read()
Christopher Mueller wrote:
> Thanks John. An add-on question to my last one - the FileWriter.finish()
> call write the file bit by bit, or all at once? Would it be possible to
> monitor the size of the file that's being created, or would it just stay
> very small (initialization size) right up until the last moment of the call
> and then shoot up to it's full size all at once? I'd really just like to be
> able to give the user some sense that there's something happening.
>
> Thanks again for the quick reply.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 1/8/08 6:46 PM, "John Caron" <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Christopher:
>>
>> theres no way to do that right now, it would require code at some very
>> deep layers. however, ill keep it in mind for the future to see if its
>> possible to add.
>>
>> Christopher Mueller wrote:
>>> John et al.,
>>>
>>> I have an application that contacts an OpENDAP server, gets a subset of
>>> an available dataset, and then writes the desired data to a local Netcdf
>>> file. Everything works quite well (for most datasets), however I have
>>> not been able to find a way to keep track of the progress of the dataset
>>> as it downloads/writes to disk. Is there a way to do this?? I have
>>> profiled the methods and discovered that essentially all of the
>>> processing time is within the FileWriter.finish() call.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can inform the user of the progress
>>> without resorting to an indeterminate progress bar (which is what I¹m
>>> currently using)??
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Chris
>>>
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