I must disagree. Writing libraries in C is a far
better solution than C++ primarily because
almost all programming languages systems
(Java, Python, etc) can access C functions
but few can access C++ because of the name mangling
issues.
=Dennis Heimbigner
Unidata
Pedro Vicente wrote:
Hi
It is an excellent suggestion, that I also follow.
Both netCDF and HDF5 are written in C, and both have C++ "wrappers",
that are just C++ classes that call the C API.
Over the years I have written programs that use the netCDF/HDF5
libraries, either in C, like h5diff, or C++, like h5merge. h5merge
re-does much of h5diff in a C++ way.
h5diff was written in 2003, and at the time it did not occur to me (and
probably to nobody else at the then NCSA HDF Group), that it might
as well be written in C++.
Advantages of writing a C++ program that uses the C APIs:
1) C++ is a much more powerful language than C.
2) It has libraries like STL (Standard Template Libraries), that provide
data structures like vectors, lists, maps.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/
3) The C++ "wrappers" just add another layer of functions with the same
name as the underlying API.
If what they only do is to call the C API, why not do that myself in my
program, avoiding that extra layer of functions that I don't need?
4) The C++ wrappers offer only a subset of the C API. Some functions
that are sometimes needed are not available.
Pedro
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Pedro Vicente, Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine
http://www.ess.uci.edu/
----- Original Message ----- From: Taylor Binnington
To: Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)
Cc: netcdfgroup
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Subsetting data with C++ API calls
Thank you, that's an excellent suggestion Christopher. I've spent the
past few days using the regular C libraries with much more success, and
minimal bandwidth usage. I didn't really realize how simple that could
be until I tried: I had just assumed that if I wanted to program C++, I
would have to use those libraries.
Thanks again!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)"
<christopher.s.lynnes@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Taylor Binnington" <tbinnington@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "netcdfgroup" <netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Subsetting data with C++ API calls
Taylor,
I can't help thinking that the C++ library you are using seems a
little more brittle than the C route at this phase in its evolution.
Have you considered making calls to the C API from your C++ call? THe
methods for extracting subsets of variables are quite clear in the C
API...
On Mar 3, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Taylor Binnington <tbinnington@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello,
I'm attempting to read only certain parts (specific indices of
specific variable arrays), remotely, from a MERRA HDFEOS file.
I've recently upgraded to NetCDF 4.2.1.1, using Lynton's C++ library.
At first, I was using trying to subset the data directly from an
OPeNDAP URL supplied to NcFile, but it's been suggested to me, by an
earlier post in the OPeNDAP forums, that this is not a good way to
go. Instead, I should use NetCDF API calls.
I have carefully read through the C++ interface guide, including this
example:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/cxx4/test_var_8cpp-example.html
but am struggling to understand how to do this. A push in the right
direction would be very appreciated. The example (I don't fully
understand it, but was trying to emulate some of the example that I
linked above)
#include <iostream>
#include <netcdf>
int main() {
NcFile
dataFile("http://goldsmr2.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/opendap/hyrax/MERRA/MAT1NXSLV.5.2.0/1991/01/MERRA100.prod.assim.tavg1_2d_slv_Nx.19910101.hdf";,
NcFile::read);
NcGroup grouptest(dataFile.addGroup("Dataset"));
}
gives me the error:
terminate called after throwing an instance of
'netCDF::exceptions::NcNotNc4'
what(): NcNotNc4: Attempting netcdf-4 operation on netcdf-3 file.
file: ncGroup.cpp line:265
Aborted
This is not surprising, since the file is not a NetCDF-3 file.
Thank you in advance.
Taylor
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