Re: [thredds] THREDS v4.2.7 Feature Collections

Hi Glenn:

On 7/6/2011 5:19 AM, Comiskey, Glenn wrote:
Hi,
I am looking into the Feature Collection element of THREDDS v4.2.7 (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.2/tutorial/FeatureCollectionsTutorial.html). I have downloaded the file catalogFmrc.xml, edited as necessary, and implemented a <catalogRef> element in catalog.xml.
However, I am running into difficulty with <collection spec=""/> syntax.
Quickly discovered that I had to use slash (/) in the pathname even though running on a Windows server as the standard Windows path seperator backslash (\) resulted in an error message being logged in catalogInit.log: readCatalog(): Exception on catalog=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0 THREDDS\content\thredds\catalogFmrc.xml String index out of range: -1 log=null catalog

correct. if you always use a "/" anywhere a file specification is needed in the TDS (and Java!), it always works.

Still have a problem, though, defining wildcard filenames so that the files get grouped together. If I specify a single file name, i.e <collection spec="C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-06.grb"/>, everything works: [2011-07-06T11:58:28.140+0100] INFO thredds.inventory.bdb.MetadataManager: MetadataManager: open bdb at root C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0 THREDDS\content\thredds/cache/collection/ readOnly = false [2011-07-06T11:58:28.153+0100] INFO thredds.inventory.bdb.MetadataManager: NMIFMRC #files deleted = 0 [2011-07-06T11:58:28.381+0100] INFO ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.Fmrc: C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-06.grb: make new Dataset, new proto = false [2011-07-06T11:58:28.383+0100] INFO ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.Fmrc: C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-06.grb: make new Dataset, new proto = false However, if I try using a wildcard substitute, i.e. <collection spec="C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-??.grb"/> or <collection spec="C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-*.grb"/>, it fails:

these are regular expressions, not wildcard syntax. I think you would need for those 2 examples:

C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-..\.grb$

C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-.*grb$

The $ "end anchor" is important to exclude index files that sometimes are in the same directory.

featureCollectionScan.log:
[2011-07-06T12:12:31.458+0100] INFO thredds.inventory.bdb.MetadataManager: MetadataManager: open bdb at root C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0 THREDDS\content\thredds/cache/collection/ readOnly = false [2011-07-06T12:12:31.471+0100] INFO thredds.inventory.bdb.MetadataManager: NMIFMRC #files deleted = 1 [2011-07-06T12:12:31.476+0100] ERROR ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.FmrcDataset: Fmrc collection is empty =fmrc:NMIFMRC [2011-07-06T12:12:31.477+0100] ERROR ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.Fmrc: C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-??.grb: makeFmrcInv failed [2011-07-06T12:12:31.494+0100] ERROR ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.FmrcDataset: Fmrc collection is empty =fmrc:NMIFMRC [2011-07-06T12:12:31.494+0100] ERROR ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.Fmrc: C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-??.grb: makeFmrcInv failed [2011-07-06T12:13:27.309+0100] INFO thredds.inventory.bdb.MetadataManager: MetadataManager: open bdb at root C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0 THREDDS\content\thredds/cache/collection/ readOnly = false [2011-07-06T12:13:27.322+0100] INFO thredds.inventory.bdb.MetadataManager: NMIFMRC #files deleted = 0 [2011-07-06T12:13:27.328+0100] ERROR ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.FmrcDataset: Fmrc collection is empty =fmrc:NMIFMRC [2011-07-06T12:13:27.328+0100] ERROR ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.Fmrc: C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-*.grb: makeFmrcInv failed [2011-07-06T12:13:27.328+0100] ERROR ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.FmrcDataset: Fmrc collection is empty =fmrc:NMIFMRC [2011-07-06T12:13:27.329+0100] ERROR ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.Fmrc: C:/data/datasets/forecasts/DNMI-Nsea.2011-07-*.grb: makeFmrcInv failed
threddsServlet.log:
2011-07-06T12:13:27.348 +0100 [ 8232][ 11] ERROR - thredds.server.catalogservice.LocalCatalogServiceController - handleRequestInternal(): Problem handling request.
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.FmrcDataset.getNetcdfDataset2D(FmrcDataset.java:166)
 at ucar.nc2.ft.fmrc.Fmrc.getDataset2D(Fmrc.java:183)
Does this feature of THREDDS not work on Windows servers?
Kind regards,
Glenn Comiskey
Data System Administrator


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