[thredds] TDS String variable problem

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• Subject: [thredds] TDS String variable problem
• From: Bob Simons <bob.simons@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:19:13 -0800
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For this dataset
http://coaps.fsu.edu/thredds/dodsC/samos/data/research/WTEP/2012/WTEP_20120128v30001.nc
"flag" is a String variable which uses the "time" dimension (144 values):

Dataset {
    ....
    String flag[time = 144];
} samos/data/research/WTEP/2012/WTEP_20120128v30001.nc;

and the TDS is THREDDS Data Server [Version 4.0.24 - 20090724.2259].

If I request the entire flag variable with:
http://coaps.fsu.edu/thredds/dodsC/samos/data/research/WTEP/2012/WTEP_20120128v30001.nc.ascii?flag

I get a reasonable response:
Dataset {
    String flag[time = 144];
} samos/data/research/WTEP/2012/WTEP_20120128v30001.nc;
---------------------------------------------
flag[144]
"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ", "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ", "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ", ...

But if I request a subset of the flag variable with:
http://coaps.fsu.edu/thredds/dodsC/samos/data/research/WTEP/2012/WTEP_20120128v30001.nc.ascii?flag[0:10:99]
which is what the .html form helps me to generate,
I get an error message:
Error {
    code = 500;
    message = "NcSDCharArray InvalidRangeException";
};

Is this:

* something wrong with the dataset's setup?
* something wrong in TDS?

Thanks for looking into this.

Sincerely,

Bob Simons
IT Specialist
Environmental Research Division
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center
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Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2079
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