Hi Quincey,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Quincey Koziol <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Darren Dale wrote:
>> I probably should have been more explicit: the
>> example illustrates that the problem is isolated to Datasets, Groups
>> are not effected.
>
>        Whoops, sorry, yes, you are right.
>
>> H5py does not do any explicit name tracking. It delegates that task
>> completely to hdf5: for both Datasets and Groups, h5py simply calls
>> H5Iget_name. It seems to me that open dataset ids are not getting
>> their information updated, but open group ids are. Now that I think
>> about it, aren't there other issues with copying open datasets in
>> <hdf5-1.8.9? Perhaps the issues extend to moving open datasets as
>> well.
>
>      That's pretty weird (that it would only affect datasets), since the
> H5Iget_name code doesn't depend on the object type.  Can you
> replicate this with a short C program?

Yes. See the attached modified version of one of the hdf5 examples.
After I move group1 from "old_loc" to "new_loc", the names of the
nodes contained in that group werereported by hdf5-1.8.8 to be:

/new_loc/group
/old_loc/dataset

Darren
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/*
 *  This example writes data to the HDF5 file.
 *  Data conversion is performed during write operation.
 */

#include<stdlib.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include "hdf5.h"

#define H5FILE_NAME        "SDS.h5"
#define NX     5                      /* dataset dimensions */
#define NY     6
#define RANK   2

int
main (void)
{
    hid_t       file, dataset;         /* file and dataset handles */
    hid_t       g1_id, g2_id;
    hid_t       datatype, dataspace;   /* handles */
    hsize_t     dimsf[2];              /* dataset dimensions */
    herr_t      status;
    int         data[NX][NY];          /* data to write */
    int         i, j;
    ssize_t     dset_name_len, group_name_len;
    char*       dset_name;
    char*       group_name;

    /*
     * Data  and output buffer initialization.
     */
    for(j = 0; j < NX; j++)
	for(i = 0; i < NY; i++)
	    data[j][i] = i + j;
    /*
     * 0 1 2 3 4 5
     * 1 2 3 4 5 6
     * 2 3 4 5 6 7
     * 3 4 5 6 7 8
     * 4 5 6 7 8 9
     */

    /*
     * Create a new file using H5F_ACC_TRUNC access,
     * default file creation properties, and default file
     * access properties.
     */
    file = H5Fcreate(H5FILE_NAME, H5F_ACC_TRUNC, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT);

    g1_id = H5Gcreate2(file, "/old_loc", H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT,
                       H5P_DEFAULT);
    g2_id = H5Gcreate2(g1_id, "group", H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT,
                       H5P_DEFAULT);

    /*
     * Describe the size of the array and create the data space for fixed
     * size dataset.
     */
    dimsf[0] = NX;
    dimsf[1] = NY;
    dataspace = H5Screate_simple(RANK, dimsf, NULL);

    /*
     * Define datatype for the data in the file.
     * We will store little endian INT numbers.
     */
    datatype = H5Tcopy(H5T_NATIVE_INT);
    status = H5Tset_order(datatype, H5T_ORDER_LE);

    /*
     * Create a new dataset within the file using defined dataspace and
     * datatype and default dataset creation properties.
     */
    dataset = H5Dcreate2(g1_id, "dataset", datatype, dataspace,
			H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT);

    /*
     * Write the data to the dataset using default transfer properties.
     */
    status = H5Dwrite(dataset, H5T_NATIVE_INT, H5S_ALL, H5S_ALL, H5P_DEFAULT, data);

    status = H5Gmove2(file, "/old_loc", file, "/new_loc");

    dset_name_len = H5Iget_name(dataset, NULL, 0)+1;
    dset_name = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*(dset_name_len));
    H5Iget_name(dataset, dset_name, dset_name_len);

    group_name_len = H5Iget_name(g2_id, NULL, 0)+1;
    group_name = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*(group_name_len));
    H5Iget_name(g2_id, group_name, group_name_len);

    printf("Group: %s\n", group_name);
    printf("Dataset: %s", dset_name);


    /*
     * Close/release resources.
     */
    H5Sclose(dataspace);
    H5Tclose(datatype);
    H5Dclose(dataset);
    H5Gclose(g1_id);
    H5Gclose(g2_id);
    H5Fclose(file);

    return 0;
}

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