Re: [netcdf-java] Reading NcML Variables with "values"

• To: Doug Lindholm <doug.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdf-java] Reading NcML Variables with "values"
• From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:30:01 -0700

Doug Lindholm wrote:

I have another ncml file that defines its values with a "values" element:
  <values start="0" increment="1"/>
Its single dimension length is fixed, and potentially very large.

I noticed that the NetCDF code creates and holds the entire array in the Variable's "cache". I'd like to think that it would be clever enough to generate the data as I request it. Is there a feature that I'm missing? Would it make sense to have a subclass of Variable that would support this?

It always caches <value> data. Simplicity first. How big is your data?

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