Problem with NetcdfFile.makeUncompressed

[Don Murray]

ignore this message.  It was supposed to go to support-netcdf-java.

Sorry about that.

Don Murray wrote:
> John-
> 
> We are running into a problem where a user is storing their
> IDD Level II radar files which are a series of compressed
> radials with the extension .bz2.  The problem is that
> NetcdfFile automatically assumes that the entire file was
> BZIP2 compressed, not the individual radials.
> 
> So, NetcdfFile.makeUncompressed tries to decompress the entire
> file and gets a NullPointerException.  This is a problem with
> the other file types (.Z, .gz) as well since there is no checking
> to see if the extension actually describes the file structure
> correctly.  Maybe if there are errors in any of these uncompress
> methods, just the file should be returned and then have the
> open fail further up to say it's not a netCDF file?
> 
> The problem is that this worked once in the IDV before we moved
> to the CDM because we didn't try to automatically uncompress
> the files.  Asking the user to rename the files is one option, but
> from their point of view, it worked once, why doesn't it work now?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Don
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Don Murray                               UCAR Unidata Program
dmurray at unidata.ucar.edu                        P.O. Box 3000
(303) 497-8628                              Boulder, CO 80307
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/donm
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