Jesse,
That's what I thought as well, but when I took that off and even
increased it I
still don't get the last character. I was able able to finally get it
translated to vb.net, at least your ReadAttributeString function with the same
results.
--
William Hubler
Technical Services Specialist
Steward Observatory Mirror Lap
University of Arizona
Quoting Jesse Lai <[email protected]>:
I do get all the characters.
It might be this line:
// Make length smaller so null termination character is not read
int length = (int)H5T.getSize(dataTypeId) - 1;
Did you try removing the subtraction of 1 to see if that works for you.
I needed it I think because I didn't want the null terminator.
Jesse
On 7/24/2010 5:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hello Jesse,
I tried your code and got it to work, mostly. I couldn't make a straight
conversion to VB.net due to some pointer issues so I just put your
code into a
dll and called it directly. The only problem I have now is that returned
string is missing the last character. I tried increasing the buffer
but to no
avail. When I inspect the string before it goes out I see that it
contains the
null terminator "\0". What do I need to do to get the last
character? When you
run your code, do you get all characters?
-- William Hubler
Technical Services Specialist
Steward Observatory Mirror Lap
University of Arizona
Quoting Jesse Lai <[email protected]>:
William,
This works for me. Its somewhat of a pain, so I wrote a helper method
in a static class. It also uses a separate class for working with
variable length strings (if you need that).
Jesse
/// <summary>
/// Helper class for working with HDF5 files.
/// </summary>
public static class Hdf5Helper
{
public static string ReadAttributeString(H5ObjectWithAttributes groupId,
string objectName, string attributeName)
{
H5AttributeId attributeId = null;
H5DataTypeId dataTypeId = null;
// Read the Type attribute
try
{
attributeId = H5A.openByName(groupId, objectName,
attributeName);
dataTypeId = H5A.getType(attributeId);
bool isVariableLength = H5T.isVariableString(dataTypeId);
if (isVariableLength)
{
// Variable length string attribute
// NOTE: This section only works if the array length is 1
VariableLengthString[] value = new VariableLengthString[1];
H5A.read<VariableLengthString>(attributeId, dataTypeId, new
H5Array<VariableLengthString>(value));
return value[0].ToString();
}
else
{
// Make length smaller so null termination character is not read
int length = (int)H5T.getSize(dataTypeId) - 1;
// Fixed length string attribute
byte[] valueBytes = new byte[length];
H5A.read<byte>(attributeId, dataTypeId, new H5Array<byte>(valueBytes));
string value = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(valueBytes);
return value;
}
}
catch (H5AopenByNameException)
{
// Attribute does not exist
}
catch (H5AreadException)
{
// Could not read the attribute correctly
}
finally
{
if (dataTypeId != null)
{
H5T.close(dataTypeId);
}
if (attributeId != null)
{
H5A.close(attributeId);
}
}
return null;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Struct used to read in variable length string data from an HDF5
/// file. It is unsafe, therefore, the layout is used to define the
/// struct.
/// </summary>
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public unsafe struct VariableLengthString
{
/// <summary>
/// Pointer to the variable length string
/// </summary>
private char* recordedText;
/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the pointer to the variable length string.
/// </summary>
[CLSCompliant(false)]
public char* RecordedText
{
get
{
return this.recordedText;
}
set
{
this.recordedText = value;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns a System.String that represents the current System.Object.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>The value of the variable length string.</returns>
public override string ToString()
{
string s;
// The HDF5 STRING is not a string but in fact a char*
// Therefore, we need to translate the return into a pointer address
IntPtr ipp = (IntPtr)this.recordedText;
// This call is used to transform the pointer into the value of the
pointer.
// NOTE: this only works with null-terminated strings.
s = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi(ipp);
//// FREE THE MEMORY TO THE POINTER??
//// System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FreeHGlobal(ipp);
return s;
}
}
On 7/23/2010 1:25 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Ruth,
That I have tried and although I got the string dataset to work in
C#, I was not
able to get it to work with string attributes in C#. When
converted to VB I am
unable to direct cast a pointer to an intptr. Is is just a
deficiency in the
dotnet wrappers?
Thanks,
-- William Hubler
Technical Services Specialist
Steward Observatory Mirror Lap
University of Arizona
Quoting Ruth Aydt <[email protected]>:
You might take a look at the user-contributed example for reading
variable-length strings that is found here:
ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/HDF5dotNetEnv/examples/
On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:43 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hello all,
It seems that I have hit a wall here. I have a program that
reads h5 files.
Datasets (numerical), groups and attributes (numerical), I can
read fine. I
now have some string attributes to read.
I have tried:
Dim fileId As H5FileId = H5F.open('f:\newDataFormat.h5",
H5F.OpenMode.ACC_RDWR)
Dim dsetId As H5DataSetId = H5D.open(fileId,"units")
Dim attrId As H5AttributeId = H5A.open(dsetId, "unit")
Dim strtype As New H5DataTypeId(H5T.H5Type.C_S1)
Dim read_data As string() = New string(0) {}
H5A.read(attrId, strtype, New H5Array(Of string)(read_data))
and when I look at read_data(0), it is nothing. I also get no errors.
I can make this work for integers, doubles and the like, but not
strings. Am I
missing something.
I am using VS 2008, vb.net, XP 64 bit and the .net hdf5 wrappers
after making
them work for 64bit.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-- William Hubler
Technical Services Specialist
Steward Observatory Mirror Lap
University of Arizona
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