How can I read array of Structures? about pydap

[laliberte]

Unfortunately, after some tests, I must conclude that this type of dataset is not currently supported by pydap. It will require substantial code modification to work so I think it is unlikely to become available in the near future. I'd say that this issue should remain opened until a suitable code modification is made available.

[laliberte]

I have been having a look at this issue over the last few days and made somewhat little headway. This is made difficult by the fact that the current data model always grabs data from the simplest datatype in the hierarchy. However, this example server shows clearly that this is not how the DAP2 standard should work: one cannot fetch subcomponents of a StructureType that has a shape; instead one has to fetch all subcomponents of said StructureType for a slice of the data and THEN extract the desired subcomponent.
This will require a fairly comprehensive re-organisation of the pydap data model. If my preliminary tests are right, it might be possible to do this without changing much of the public API (at least what seems to be implicitly considered a public API). I expect this should take a couple of weeks, if things go smoothly...

[hyoklee]

Thanks @laliberte for working hard on this issue.