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1132894350 I_kwDOAMm_X85DhpiO 6269 Adding CDL Parser/`open_cdl`? 1386642 open 0     7 2022-02-11T17:31:36Z 2022-02-14T17:18:38Z   CONTRIBUTOR      

Is your feature request related to a problem?

No.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be nice to load/generate xarray datasets from Common Data Language (CDL) descriptions. CDL is a DSL that that defines a netCDF dataset, and is quite nice for testing. We use it to build mock datasets for e.g. integration testing of plotting routines/complex data analysis etc. CDL provides a concise format for storing the schema of this data. This schema can be used for validation or generation (using the CLI ncgen).

CDL is basically the format produced by xarray.Dataset.info. It looks like this: netcdf example { // example of CDL notation dimensions: lon = 3 ; lat = 8 ; variables: float rh(lon, lat) ; rh:units = "percent" ; rh:long_name = "Relative humidity" ; // global attributes :title = "Simple example, lacks some conventions" ; data: /// optional ...ncgen will still build rh = 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89 ; }

I wrote a small pure python parser for CDL last night and it seems work! There are similar projects on github. Sadly, these projects seem to be abandoned so it would be nice to attach to an effort like xarray.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Some kind of schema object that can be used to validate or generate an xarray Dataset, but does not contain any data.

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