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Assuming a group extension changes the metadata for all its children (e.g. consolidated metadata), but also has other parent groups, it is important to read the group with this extension, even when opening the hierarchy via a parent. An example:
Group G has such an extension (e.g. consolidated metadata)
Group P is a parent
Array A is in group G, and can only be opened via G
Then P should signal that group G must be read in order to open any subarrays. This could be done via a group feature descendants_must_be_read, which should be set to true for all parents of G in the example. This is not included in the original spec since the feature is too speculative concerning the opening implementation and future group extension. It should be considered once such a group extension exists. (See #204 (comment).)
The original proposal of this feature was to add a descendants_must_be_read key to the group metadata:
``descendants_must_be_read``
Boolean that indicates whether any descendant groups may themselves specify
storage transformers or other features needed to read their contents.
Defaults to ``false``. If set to ``true``, implementations must read the
metadata of all groups along the path to any descendant arrays or groups. If
set to ``false`` (or not specified), for improved efficiency implementations
need not read the metadata of groups along the path to descendants when
opening those descendants.
When adding a group extension to a non-root group, implementations must set
this attribute to ``true`` in all ancestor groups.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
Assuming a group extension changes the metadata for all its children (e.g. consolidated metadata), but also has other parent groups, it is important to read the group with this extension, even when opening the hierarchy via a parent. An example:
Then P should signal that group G must be read in order to open any subarrays. This could be done via a group feature
descendants_must_be_read
, which should be set to true for all parents of G in the example. This is not included in the original spec since the feature is too speculative concerning the opening implementation and future group extension. It should be considered once such a group extension exists. (See #204 (comment).)The original proposal of this feature was to add a
descendants_must_be_read
key to the group metadata:The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: