Skip to content

IRIS file naming convention won't work on Windows #23

@danielhogg

Description

@danielhogg

I have seen two distinct naming conventions for IRIS files used by Environment Canada, and I have adapted the code to work with either of them. Here are two examples:

  • DOPVOL1_A:20130720135127
  • 201607202330~~DOPVOL1_C:URP:XAM:RADAR:IRIS

Currently, the code handles either of these naming conventions. However, neither of these work on Windows, as colons are a reserved character, and cannot be used while naming a file.

In order to fix this issue on Windows, we will need to agree on a third IRIS file naming convention that does not involve special characters. My suggestion is the following:

Proposed convention: YYYYMMDDHHMM-TYPE
For example: 201607202330-DOPVOL1_A or 201607202330-CONVOL

Note: This is currently only an issue for IRIS files, as the naming conventions for NEXRAD and ODIM_H5 files do not contain any special characters.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions