Zaak,

H5O Fortran wrappers will be available in 1.8.8. If all regression tests pass 
this weekend, we will make a release candidate tar ball available early next 
week.

h5aget_num_attrs_f is still in the library. "Deprecated" is actually a typo 
;-). Thank you for catching it!. 

Elena

On Oct 21, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Zaak Beekman wrote:

> A thought just occured to me: would it be sensible to call 
> h5aget_name_by_idx_f and monitor the err return value? The only problem here 
> is that there are no details in the documentation (which I can find) that 
> detail what the starting index value should be (e.g. 0 or 1 or something 
> strange) and which way to increment the indeces and what the stride/step 
> should be (probably 1?)
> 
> Any and all help or suggestions greatly appreciated.
> Izaak Beekman
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> 
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Zaak Beekman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is there a way to loop over object attributes using Fortran bindings? 
> Something akin to an iterate method, but if I know that there are natt 
> attributes with indeces starting at n0, incremented by 1 and a method to 
> retrieve attribute name by index that would be great. It seems that 
> h5aget_num_attrs_f is depricated and there is no work around as far as I can 
> tell, there is no easy work around. The documentation points to H5O methods, 
> but these have a virtually non-existent API. If one uses h5aget_num_attrs_f 
> one needs an object id, which can be fetched by h5oopen_f, BUT there is no 
> h5oclose_f! Also there are no object querrying fortran bindins so one 
> couldn't even figure out what type of object it is on the fly and branch to 
> the proper close statement. 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions here? (Other than venturing into the 
> unfamiliar and murky waters of mixed language programming.)
> Thanks,
> Izaak Beekman
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> 
> UMD-CP Visiting Graduate Student
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> [email protected]
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