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SD1.2.5.1.1.2-B NetCDF C++ API
Background
The NetCDF-4 C++ API was for using in managing fusion research data from CCFE's innovative MAST (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) experiment.
The API is implemented as a layer over the NetCDF-4 C interface, which means bug fixes and performance enhancements in the C interface will be immediately available to C++ developers as well.
Aim
- To use C++ for working with NetCDF data.
- To apply the main information available in the NetCDF C++ Interface Guide.
- To exploit the strengths of the NetCDF C++ API:
- Object-oriented interface.
- Type safety: better than the C interface.
- Less code than an equivalent C program, and it's object-oriented.
- Short argument lists, because there are no IDs for variables, dimensions, or attributes.
- Easier memory management, because space for blocks of data is allocated by the library.
- Hides “define mode”, so no calls are needed to enter or leave define mode for changing the schema of a NetCDF file (adding variables, dimensions, or attributes).
Outcomes
- Write a two-dimensional array of sample data and read data from this file.
- Write some variables with units attributes and coordinate dimensions and read data variables and attributes from this file.
- Write some four-dimensional variables using a record dimension and read from the variables from this file.
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