How to work with this example?

[John Caron]

Hi Ruben:

Perhaps you are using an old version of the library?

2.2.18 has this method:

NetcdfFileWriteable.addVariable(String varName, DataType dataType, List dims);

Ruben Arroyo wrote:
>  public static void main(String args[])
>  {
>      // We are writing 2D data, a 6 x 12 grid.
>     final int NX = 6;
>     final int NY = 12;
> 
> 
>     // Create the file.
>     String filename = "simple_xy.nc";
>     NetcdfFileWriteable dataFile = null;
> 
>     try {
>          dataFile = new NetcdfFileWriteable(filename);
>          
>          // Create netCDF dimensions,
>          Dimension xDim = dataFile.addDimension ("x", NX );
>          Dimension yDim = dataFile.addDimension("y", NY );
> 
>          ArrayList<Dimension> dims =  new ArrayList<Dimension>();
> 
>          // define dimensions
>          dims.add( xDim);
>          dims.add( yDim);
> 
> 
>         // Define a netCDF variable. The type of the variable in this case
>         // is ncInt (32-bit integer).
>          dataFile.addVariable("data", DataType.INT.getClass(), dims);
>          
>          //dataFile.addVariable("data", DataType.INT.getClass(), dims);
> 
>          // This is the data array we will write. It will just be filled
>          // with a progression of numbers for this example.
>         ArrayInt.D2 dataOut = new ArrayInt.D2 ( xDim.getLength(), 
> yDim.getLength());
> 
>         // Create some pretend data. If this wasn't an example program, we
>         // would have some real data to write, for example, model output.
>         int i,j;
> 
>         for (i=0; i<xDim.getLength(); i++) {
>              for (j=0; j<yDim.getLength(); j++) {
>                  dataOut.set(i,j, i * NY + j);
>              }
>         }
> 
>         // create the file
>         dataFile.create();
> 
> 
>         // Write the pretend data to the file. Although netCDF supports
>         // reading and writing subsets of data, in this case we write all
>         // the data in one operation.
>        dataFile.write("data", dataOut);
> 
> 
>     } catch (IOException e) {
>            e.printStackTrace();
>     } catch (InvalidRangeException e) {
>            e.printStackTrace();
>     } finally {
>          if (dataFile != null)
>          try {
>              dataFile.close();
>          } catch (IOException ioe) {
>              ioe.printStackTrace();
>          }
>     }
> 
>      System.out.println( "*** SUCCESS writing example file simple_xy.nc!");
>  }
> 
> }
> 
> // I have been to change several lines to try to compile the example I 
> see in:
> // 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/examples/programs/Simple_xy_wr.java 
> <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/examples/programs/Simple_xy_wr.java>
> 
> dataFile.addVariable("data", DataType.INT.getClass(), dims);
> The method addVariable(String, Class, Dimension[]) in the type 
> NetcdfFileWriteable is not applicable for the arguments (String, 
> Class<capture-of ? extends DataType>, ArrayList)
> 
> And my question: Is possible that canot we pass an ArrayList to 
> dataFile.addVariable ??
> 
> Thanks!
> 

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