John,
You *were* fixing a problem that was brought up at the NOAA
GEOIDE/DMIT/UAF meeting in Seattle two weeks ago. Some of us were
complaining that when doing a search across federated THREDDS servers,
the datasets that came back all just said "Best Time Series" without
any indication of what dataset they were derived from. So we asked if
this could be modified to have the "best" tacked onto the end of the
original dataset name.
I can see that this causes short-term problems, as John Maurer is
pointing out, as you would have to change scripts and let users know
the URLs have changed. But I'd still rather trade the short term
inconvenience for the long term benefit.
-Rich
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:49 PM, John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 5:13 PM, John Maurer, IV wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>> Prior to TDS 4.2, you used to be able to change the name of a dataset
>> without adversely affecting the URL to its FMRC components (Best Time
>> Series, Constant Forecast, etc.). Although the title is used to construct
>> the URL, everything up to the final _best.ncd used to be arbitrary. Now I'm
>> finding that a change in the dataset name will break the FMRC URL's. For
>> example:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/hioos/model/atm/wrf_oa/WRF_Oahu_Regional_Atmospheric_Model_(1.5km)_best.ncd
>>
>>
>> The name gets appended to _best.ncd: "WRF Oahu Regional Atmospheric Model
>> (1.5km)". It used to not matter what went before _best.ncd, and in fact you
>> could even just use the following URL:
>>
>>
>> http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/hioos/model/atm/wrf_oa/_best.ncd
>>
>>
>> Now if I change that name to something else (e.g. "WRF Oahu Regional
>> Atmospheric Model"), the old URL breaks because it's now expecting the
>> following:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/hioos/model/atm/wrf_oa/WRF_Oahu_Regional_Atmospheric_Model_best.ncd
>>
>>
>> Is this the new way it will behave or is it a bug that can be fixed?
>
> Hi John:
>
> I thought I was fixing a problem. Is there a reason you prefer it the
> previous way?
>
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