Quick question, i hope...

[John Caron]

Rob Weingruber wrote:

> Hi ;-)
>
> Dont forget that we oughtta get together ;-))
>
> Here's the quick question...
>
> What is returned from the Thredds Data Server (eg: when I 
> geoGrid.subset(...))?
> If I were to NOT use a Netcdf API, how would I parse/interpret the 
> data that
> is streamed back from any Thredds request?  Is there a 
> document/specification
> that describes the data stream?  Ditto for the inbound request protocol.
>
> The reason I ask is because we need to document our inbound protocols and
> outbound data formats, so that 3rd party clients can request/read our 
> data using
> their own code.  And I am thinking that using Thredds out of the box 
> is the
> best architectural solution (rather than growing our own in/out 
> protocol or
> dittoing existing ones).
>
> ;-)  You da man....

Hi Rob, im outta town for the week, not sure when we can meet for now...

geoGrid.subset(...) returns a GridDatatype object, useable only within 
Java. whats on the network wire depends on the data access protocol, eg. 
opendap or WCS.