Re: [netcdf-java] Grib2Netcdf

Hi John,

In some ways, it looks like v4.3 is handling the metadata much better than v4.2.  In other ways, v4.3 seems to be missing some important information - particularly with the dimension variables.  (No _CoordinateAxisType, for example)

I'm attaching the respective header dumps from using ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset with both v4.2 and v4.3.

I also wanted to bring up that the v4.3 GUI doesn't want to open for me.  (I use the toolsUI GUI *a lot* to examine files.)  

Perhaps I should be starting it with a different command than I used in v4.2, but I didn't see anything that suggested there was a different way to launch it.  Here is my command line dump: (also tried with a smaller vm heap declaration)

[manross@albion ~]$ java -Xmx3064m -jar /mnt/home/manross/Programming/Java/toolsUI-4.3.jar

Dec 14, 2011 9:43:58 AM org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext prepareRefresh

INFO: Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext@7455d93d: startup date [Wed Dec 14 09:43:58 CST 2011]; root of context hierarchy

Dec 14, 2011 9:43:58 AM org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions

INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [resources/nj22/ui/spring/application-config.xml]

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Unexpected failure during bean definition parsing

Offending resource: class path resource [resources/nj22/ui/spring/application-config.xml]

Bean 'mbeanExporter'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://www.springframework.org/schema/util]

Offending resource: class path resource [resources/nj22/ui/spring/application-config.xml]

Bean 'mbeanExporter'

-> Property 'beans'

at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:68)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:85)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.error(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:291)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseBeanDefinitionElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:497)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseBeanDefinitionElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:396)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseBeanDefinitionElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:365)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.processBeanDefinition(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:258)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseDefaultElement(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:153)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:132)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:93)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:493)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:390)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:212)

at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:126)

at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:92)

at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130)

at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:467)

at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:397)

at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)

at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83)

at ucar.nc2.ui.ToolsUI.main(ToolsUI.java:5988)

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://www.springframework.org/schema/util]

Offending resource: class path resource [resources/nj22/ui/spring/application-config.xml]

Bean 'mbeanExporter'

-> Property 'beans'

at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:68)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:85)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:80)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.error(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:284)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1332)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseNestedCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1388)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parsePropertySubElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:956)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parsePropertySubElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:944)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parsePropertyValue(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:934)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parsePropertyElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:832)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parsePropertyElements(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:697)

at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.parseBeanDefinitionElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:482)

... 22 more

Please let my know if there is anything else you need.

-kevin.

PS - I will be starting at NCAR - CISL on Feb 13.  Looking forward to hopefully chatting with you in person from time to time!