I am trying to open a DODS file and read a few values from it quickly.
However, one of its coordinate variables has about 4 million double values,
which are always cached when a DODSNetcdfFile is created due to the default
preload setting. Thus, reading a few values involves at least 32MB of network
traffic, which can take quite a while.
I have a workaround (a subclassed version of DODSNetcdfFile that allows me to
toggle preload), but it would certainly seem more elegant to allow one to
specify in the DODSNetcdfFile constructor whether to preload, or to set some
constraints on when preloading occurs (for example, if the coordinate axis
contains less than X values). Would it be possible to put this on the "feature
list" for the next version of netcdf-java?
Thanks, Mike
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Michael A. Godin
Software Engineer
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Phone: 831-775-2063 http://www.mbari.org
