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Re: New Ticket - [IDV !HAU-717700]: IDV v4.1 and RAMADDA: Loading new data with same file name as old data plots the old data



sync() was buggy and not supportable. it has been withdrawn everywhere.
you have to close and reopen yourself if the file has changed.

On 10/30/2013 5:39 PM, Jeff McWhirter wrote:

Hi Yuan and John,

For some reason I have the call to GridDataset.sync() commented out in
RAMADDA. I vaguely recall problems with it a while back.

John - in the latest version of the CDM does sync() reread the file and
handle when there is a new file?

Thanks,
Jeff



On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Yuan Ho <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:

    Jeff and Don,
           We verified the same problem in the motherlode, and remember
    Tom's African project has the same issue. Is there a possible other
    than reboot the server.

          By the way, the thumbnail image of ramadda catalog in not
    working in the IDV, any idea?


    Yuan


    -------- Original Message --------
    Subject: New Ticket - [IDV !HAU-717700]: IDV v4.1 and RAMADDA:
    Loading new data with same file name as old data plots the old data
    Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:22:29 -0600
    From: David P Dempsey <address@hidden
    <mailto:address@hidden>>
    Reply-To: address@hidden
    <mailto:address@hidden>
    To: address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>

    New Ticket: IDV v4.1 and RAMADDA: Loading new data with same file
    name as old data plots the old data

    Yuan, Julian, etc.,

    I'm using IDV v4.1 on an iMac running Mac OS X v.10.8.5.

    I'm loading and plotting geographic data, including topographic
    elevations, for a domain generated locally by the WRF Preprocessing
    System (WPS). I'm loading the data via one of our local RAMADDA
    servers (http://virga.sfsu.edu:8080/__repository/thredds
    <http://virga.sfsu.edu:8080/repository/thredds>).  The file is a
    NetCDF file (geo_em.CenCal_BayArea.nc
    
<http://geo_em.CenCal_BayArea.nc><http__://virga.sfsu.edu/data/wrf/__geo_em.CenCal_BayArea.nc
    <http://virga.sfsu.edu/data/wrf/geo_em.CenCal_BayArea.nc>>). I can
    load and plot this just fine (a bundle is attached:
    Dempsey_SFBayAreaTopography___RAMADDA.xidv.)

    However, a problem arises when I create a new geographic data set
    with the same size and containing the same types of fields but
    shifted in location, and overwrite the previous NetCDF file with the
    new data, keeping the same file name. To plot this geographically
    shifted data set in the IDV after plotting the original one, I first
    remove the original displays and loaded data by selecting Edit >
    Remove All Displays and Data. Then I access and load the new file
    (which has the same name as the old, overwritten file), and plot the
    result using exactly the same plotting specifications as the
    original one.

    Unfortunately, the plot that I get is identical to the original one.
    This is true even though the contents of the files are not the same
    (I checked to make sure)--the location metadata in each of the two
    files are exactly what I want them to be (not the same). Hence, the
    IDV still appears to be plotting the original data, not the new
    data, even though I've presumably removed the original data and
    loaded the new data.

    I get the same results if I first remove the original data source by
    <Command>-clicking on the data source in the Dashboard > Field
    Selector > Data Sources, and selecting "Remove Data Source". Ditto
    if I remove the data from the IDV by either means, then quit the
    IDV, restart, and try again. Ditto if I refresh the listing of files
    offered by RAMADDA after overwriting the original file but before
    selecting and loading the new version. Ditto if I don't remove the
    display of the original plot, or don't remove either the display or
    the data source before loading the replacement data and plotting it.

    On the other hand, if I give the new file a different name from the
    original one, load it, and plot it, I get a plot of the shifted
    domain, just as I expect.

    On the third hand, if I access and load the new data using HTTP or
    as a local file instead of via RAMADDA, I get a plot of the shifted
    domain, as desired.

    On the fourth hand, if I put the two different data sets in files
    with the same name but in two different directories (e.g., SFSU
    Weather Data > wrf and in SFSU Weather Data > wrf > temp_demo), and
    plot the second one after removing the data and displays created
    from plotting the first one, then the second plot is successful.

    And finally, if I access the original file via HTTP or as a local
    file, then remove the data and display from the IDV, then overwrite
    the original data with the new data (keeping the file name the
    same), and finally access and load the new file via RAMADDA, the new
    plot is correct.

    To summarize: Using RAMADDA, there is a problem when loading and
    plotting two different sets of data in succession stored files that
    have the same file name and reside in the same directory. The second
    plot is identical to the first plot, even when the data and display
    from the first plot are removed before loading the replacement data.

    A final note: when I refresh the listing of the directory containing
    the data in RAMADDA (SFSU Weather Data > wrf), RAMADDA jumps back to
    a parent directory (containing SFSU Weather Data) two levels higher
    up, though when I navigate back down to the directory I want (wrf),
    the listing is indeed refreshed. This is annoying behavior, though!

    -- Dave

    P.S. Yuan, you're probably fully engaged responding the significant
    feedback being provided about the new image plotting enhancements,
    to this probably feels like a distraction!  (I wonder if Jeff
    McWhirter is ultimately going to have to deal with it, if it turns
    out to be primarily a RAMADDA problem.)


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    Ticket Details
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    Ticket ID: HAU-717700
    Department: Support IDV
    Priority: Normal
    Status: Open
    Link:
    
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