H5Group - Documentation

An object where the keys are the names of the immediate children and the values are strings specifying the object type of each child. Each string can be one of "Group", "DataSet" or "Other".

Type:

object

file :string

Source:

hdf5.js, line 102

Overrides:

H5Base#file

Path to the HDF5 file.

Type:

string

name :string

Source:

hdf5.js, line 110

Overrides:

H5Base#name

Name of the object inside the file.

Type:

string

Methods

createDataSet(name, type, shape, optionsopt) → {H5DataSet}

Source:

hdf5.js, line 372

Parameters:

Name Type Attributes Default Description

name

string

Name of the dataset to create.

type

string

Type of dataset to create. This can be "IntX" or "UintX" for X of 8, 16, 32, or 64; or "FloatX" for X of 32 or 64; or "String"; or "Enum".

shape

Array

Array containing the dimensions of the dataset to create. This can be set to an empty array to create a scalar dataset.

options

object

{}

Optional parameters.

Properties

Name	Type	Attributes	Default	Description
`maxStringLength`	number	<optional>	`10`	Maximum length of the strings to be saved. Only used when `type = "String"`.
`compression`	number	<optional>	`6`	Deflate compression level.
`chunks`	Array	<optional> <nullable>	`null`	Array containing the chunk dimensions. This should have length equal to `shape`, with each value being no greater than the corresponding value of `shape`. If `null`, it defaults to `shape`.
`levels`	Array	<optional> <nullable>	`null`	Array of strings containing enum levels. Only used (and mandatory) when `type = "Enum"`.

Returns:

A dataset of the specified type and shape is created as an immediate child of the current group. A H5DataSet object is returned representing this new dataset.

Type: H5DataSet

createGroup(name)

Source:

hdf5.js, line 335

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
`name`	string	Name of the group to create.

Returns:

{@H5Group} A group is created as an immediate child of the current group. A H5Group object is returned representing this new group. If a group already exists at name, it is returned directly.

open(name, optionsopt) → {H5Group|H5DataSet}

Source:

hdf5.js, line 313

Parameters:

Name	Type	Attributes	Default	Description
`name`	string			Name of the child element to open.
`options`	object	<optional>	`{}`	Further options to pass to the H5Group or H5DataSet constructors.

Returns:

Object representing the child element.

Type: H5Group | H5DataSet

readAttribute(attr) → {object}

Source:

hdf5.js, line 133

Overrides:

H5Base#readAttribute

Read an attribute of the object.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
`attr`	string	Name of the attribute.

Returns:

Object containing the attribute values and the shape of the attribute. For HDF5 enums, an additional level property is present, containing the levels indexed by the integer values.

Type: object

writeAttribute(attr, type, shapenullable, x, optionsopt)

Source:

hdf5.js, line 203

Overrides:

H5Base#writeAttribute

Write an attribute for the object.

Parameters:

Name Type Attributes Default Description

attr

string

Name of the attribute.

type

string

Type of dataset to create. This can be "IntX" or "UintX" for X of 8, 16, 32, or 64; or "FloatX" for X of 32 or 64; or "String"; or "Enum".

shape

Array

Array containing the dimensions of the dataset to create. If set to an empty array, this will create a scalar dataset. If set to null, this is determined from x.

x

TypedArray | Array | string | number

Values to be written to the new dataset, see write. This should be of length equal to the product of shape; unless shape is empty, in which case it should either be of length 1, or a single number or string.

options

object

{}

Optional parameters.

Properties

Name	Type	Attributes	Default	Description
`maxStringLength`	number	<optional> <nullable>	`null`	Maximum length of the strings to be saved. Only used when `type = "String"`. If `null`, this is inferred from the maximum length of strings in `x`.
`levels`	Array	<optional> <nullable>	`null`	Array of strings containing enum levels when `type = "Enum"`. If supplied, `x` should be an array of integers that index into `levels`. Alternatively, `levels` may be `null`, in which case `x` should be an array of strings that is used to infer `levels`.

writeDataSet(name, type, shape, x, optionsopt) → {H5DataSet}

Source:

hdf5.js, line 436

This convenience method combines createDataSet with write. It is particularly useful for string types as it avoids having to specify the maxStringLength during creation based on the x used during writing.

Parameters:

Name Type Attributes Default Description

name

string

Name of the dataset to create.

type

string

Type of dataset to create. This can be "IntX" or "UintX" for X of 8, 16, 32, or 64; or "FloatX" for X of 32 or 64; or "String".

shape

Array

Array containing the dimensions of the dataset to create. If set to an empty array, this will create a scalar dataset. If set to null, this is determined from x.

x

TypedArray | Array | string | number

Values to be written to the new dataset, see write.

options

object

{}

Optional parameters.

Properties

Name	Type	Attributes	Default	Description
`levels`	Array	<optional> <nullable>	`null`	Array of strings containing enum levels when `type = "Enum"`. If supplied, `x` should be an array of integers that index into `levels`. Alternatively, `levels` may be `null`, in which case `x` should be an array of strings that is used to infer `levels`.
`compression`	number	<optional>	`6`	Deflate compression level.
`chunks`	Array	<optional> <nullable>	`null`	Array containing the chunk dimensions. This should have length equal to `shape`, with each value being no greater than the corresponding value of `shape`. If `null`, it defaults to `shape`.
`cache`	boolean	<optional>	`false`	Whether to cache the written values in the returned H5DataSet object.

Returns:

A dataset of the specified type and shape is created as an immediate child of the current group. The same dataset is then filled with the contents of x. A H5DataSet object is returned representing this new dataset.

Type: H5DataSet