Re: Unable to name "middle-level" dataset elements

Hi Mark,

Try moving the "dir namer" datasetNamer element inside the datasetSource
element. I think that will work. Let me know. If not, I have a few other ideas
that I'm hoping aren't the case.

Ethan

Mark A Ohrenschall wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a hierarchy of data sets reflected in the directory structure a file
> system, but I cannot find any way to control the name of the "middle" dataset
> elements (there are three levels of dataset elements) which correspond to --
> and are named after -- the directories containing the data files, e.g.,
> "saa/Products/netcdf/sst50" near the bottom of this email.
> 
> The second and last paragraph of "Reflect hierarchy of your dataset collection
> in your catalog" at
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/cataloggen/CatalogGenConfig.html
> implies I have control over the naming of these dataset elements, but I'm
> unable to figure out how.
> 
> Here is my XML configuration file:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE catalog SYSTEM 
> "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/xml/CatalogGenConfig.0.5.dtd";>
> <catalog name="my data" version="0.6">
>   <dataset name="SAA netCDF Products" dataType="Grid">
>     <metadata metadataType="CatalogGenConfig">
>       <catalogGenConfig type="Catalog">
>         <datasetSource name="ds source" type="Local" structure="DirTree" 
> accessPoint="/data/www/html/dods/saa/Products/netcdf/">
>           <resultService name="DODSserver" serviceType="DODS" 
> base="http://panther.ngdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/dods/nph-dods/dods/"; 
> accessPointHeader="/data/www/html/dods/"/>
>           <datasetNamer name="netCDF namer" type="RegExp" addLevel="false" 
> matchPattern="([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\.cdf$" substitutePattern="nc $1 $2"/>
>           <datasetFilter name="My Test" type="RegExp" 
> matchPattern="\/.+\.cdf$"/>
>         </datasetSource>
>         <datasetNamer name="dir namer" type="RegExp" addLevel="false" 
> matchPattern="(.*)" substitutePattern="dir $1"/>
>       </catalogGenConfig>
>       <datasetNamer name="dir namer" type="RegExp" addLevel="false" 
> matchPattern="(.*)" substitutePattern="dir $1"/>
>     </metadata>
>   </dataset>
> </catalog>
> 
> And here is an excerpt of the generated output:
> 
> [mao@panther THREDDS]$ /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_02/bin/java -classpath 
> cataloggen-0.6.jar:thredds.jar:jdom-b8.jar:dods.1.1.1.jar 
> thredds.cataloggen.CatalogGen file:///home/mao/THREDDS/saatest.xml trash; 
> head trash
> readMetadataContent=[Element: <catalogGenConfig [Namespace: 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/thredds]/>]
> Catalog read successfully (file:///home/mao/THREDDS/saatest.xml):
> Message=----Catalog Validation version 0.6.02
>   **Dataset (3) (SAA netCDF Products): is not selectable and does not have 
> nested datasets
> 
> CatalogGen: catalog written to trash.
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE catalog SYSTEM 
> "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/xml/InvCatalog.0.6.dtd";>
> <catalog xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/thredds"; 
> xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; name="my data" version="0.6">
>   <dataset name="SAA netCDF Products" dataType="Grid">
>     <service name="DODSserver" serviceType="DODS" 
> base="http://panther.ngdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/dods/nph-dods/dods/"; />
>     <dataset name="saa/Products/netcdf/sst50" serviceName="DODSserver">
>       <dataset name="nc sst50 20030405_090000" 
> urlPath="saa/Products/netcdf/sst50/20030405_090000.cdf" />
>       <dataset name="nc sst50 20030401_210000" 
> urlPath="saa/Products/netcdf/sst50/20030401_210000.cdf" />
>       <dataset name="nc sst50 20030329_090000" 
> urlPath="saa/Products/netcdf/sst50/20030329_090000.cdf" />
>       <dataset name="nc sst50 20030325_210000" 
> urlPath="saa/Products/netcdf/sst50/20030325_210000.cdf" />
> [mao@panther THREDDS]$ grep dir trash
> [mao@panther THREDDS]$
> 
> (The grep is looking for "dir ..."  name attribute values generated from the
> "dir namer" datasetNamer element.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark

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