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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/992#issuecomment-269510467,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/992,269510467,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI2OTUxMDQ2Nw==,2443309,2016-12-28T17:29:57Z,2016-12-28T17:29:57Z,MEMBER,"For those of you who are interested in this feature, I'd appreciate your feedback on #1170.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 1, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,173773358
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/992#issuecomment-267185985,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/992,267185985,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI2NzE4NTk4NQ==,2443309,2016-12-14T23:09:50Z,2016-12-14T23:09:50Z,MEMBER,All - I'm actively working on this. I have an initial implementation and will get it cleaned up here in the next few days. Stay tuned.,"{""total_count"": 4, ""+1"": 4, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,173773358
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/992#issuecomment-258877559,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/992,258877559,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI1ODg3NzU1OQ==,1217238,2016-11-07T16:05:04Z,2016-11-07T16:05:04Z,MEMBER,"Agreed, it's awkward to have this information on variables.
I was somewhat opposed to adding more state to the `Dataset` object but it seems like the necessary solution here. I'm not sure we need it in the `Dataset` constructor though -- could just have `encoding` as an attribute you need to modify. Honestly, could probably do the same for `DataArray.encoding` -- it's pretty low level.
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/992#issuecomment-258834200,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/992,258834200,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI1ODgzNDIwMA==,2443309,2016-11-07T13:24:20Z,2016-11-07T13:24:20Z,MEMBER,"@shoyer -
I played around with this a bit yesterday. I have two implementation questions:
- for a dataset with multiple variables, putting the dimension encoding on the `Variable` easily leads to conflicts. For example, one variable's encoding may say that dimension `x` is unlimited while another doesn't. How should we handle these conflicts.
- are we apposed to a encoding attribute on the dataset object?
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,173773358
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/992#issuecomment-243546130,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/992,243546130,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI0MzU0NjEzMA==,1217238,2016-08-30T19:07:19Z,2016-08-30T19:07:19Z,MEMBER,"> However, when the dataset is indexed/subset/resampled along the unlimited dimension, it would make sense that its state is dropped. But that would require a lot of ifs and buts, so I suggest we leave that aside for now.
This is exactly how `Variable.encoding` currently works: any operation that creates a new variable from the original variable drops the encoding.
If we put this encoding information on the variable corresponding to the dimension, any time you save a Dataset using that exact same dimension variable, it would be saved as unlimited size. So if you only modify other dimensions (e.g., with resampling or indexing), the unlimited dimension would indeed persist, as you desire.
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/992#issuecomment-243287795,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/992,243287795,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI0MzI4Nzc5NQ==,1217238,2016-08-29T23:24:21Z,2016-08-29T23:24:21Z,MEMBER,"Yes, we could put this in encoding if we want to preserve through
reading/writing files. NetCDF4 supports multiple unlimited dimensions.
Netcdf3 does not.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 1:56 PM Jonas notifications@github.com wrote:
> OK, I'd be up for taking a shot at it.
>
> Since it is per-variable and specific to netCDF, I guess the perfect place
> to add this is in the encoding dictionary that you can pass to to_netcdf
> https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/606e1d9c7efd72e10b530a688d6ef870e8ec1843/xarray/backends/api.py#L316,
> right? Maybe as key unlimited? E.g.
>
> ds.to_netcdf(encoding={'time': dict(unlimited=True)})
>
> I need to look up whether netCDF allows for defining more than one
> unlimited dimension, otherwise that must throw an error.
>
> And then it is just about passing None as length to CreateDimension, at
> least in netCDF4 and scipy.io.netcdf. But I did not look into how xarray
> handles that under the hood.
>
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/992#issuecomment-243177100,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/992,243177100,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI0MzE3NzEwMA==,2443309,2016-08-29T16:31:45Z,2016-08-29T16:31:45Z,MEMBER,"xref: https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/678
I'm also a +1 on this.
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,173773358
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/992#issuecomment-243168308,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/992,243168308,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI0MzE2ODMwOA==,1197350,2016-08-29T16:00:08Z,2016-08-29T16:00:08Z,MEMBER,"👍 from me. In the broader netCDF ecosystem, it can be pretty important to have record dimensions for various reasons, appending being the main one.
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,173773358
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/992#issuecomment-243167445,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/992,243167445,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI0MzE2NzQ0NQ==,1217238,2016-08-29T15:57:27Z,2016-08-29T15:57:27Z,MEMBER,"Currently it's not supported, but yes, we could absolutely add it as an option. I would be happy to add this functionality if someone makes a pull request. This won't be very useful for editing the file with xarray of course because we don't support editing netcdf files without making a complete copy.
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