Hi Nathan,
Currently, the netCDF ToolsUI will accept a single argument which must
be a URL to a THREDDS catalog. It opens that catalog in the "THREDDS"
tab. If the URL has a fragment identifier which is a valid dataset ID,
that dataset is selected and displayed in the "THREDDS" tab.
It would be a nice addition to allow a "-dap <dapURL>" argument which
would open the OPeNDAP dataset in the "Viewer" tab. I've added this to
our enhancements list.
Ethan
On 8/3/2010 3:23 PM, Nathan Potter wrote:
Greetings,
I have a question about the NetCDF Tools UI. I have been looking at the
JNLP files that are used to "WebStart" the application and the arguments
section looks like this:
/ <application-desc main-class="ucar.nc2.ui.ToolsUI">
<argument>{catalog}#{dataset}</argument>
</application-desc>
/
And a typical URL to invoke it looks like this:
/http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/view/ToolsUI.jnlp?catalog=http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/catalog.xml&dataset=fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z
<http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/view/ToolsUI.jnlp?catalog=http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/catalog.xml&dataset=fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z>
/
Which in turn returns a JNLP file with the argument element filled in:
/ <application-desc main-class="ucar.nc2.ui.ToolsUI">
<argument>http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/catalog.xml#fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z</argument>
</application-desc>
/
So I would deduce that it wants the catalog URL and the
thredds:dataset/@ID attribute separated by a "#" sign as it's argument.
Does it accept different argument schemes?
Is there a way to simply pass it a DAP data access URL?
/http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z
/
Or even a URL that returns a netcdf file?
/http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z.nc
/
(This last example is really a fictitious URL but I hope you can
appreciate my point)
Or is it the case that it will only accept a THREDDS catalog and a
dataset ID as arguments?
Nathan
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OPeNDAP, Inc. +1.541.231.3317
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