IDL-OPeNDAP interface

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IDL-OPENDAP interface.

Author information

Author

Patrick West UCAR/HAO

Dan Holloway

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2006 OPeNDAP, Inc.

Based on IDL-DODS Written by Daniel J. Carr - Research Systems, Inc.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

You can contact OPeNDAP, Inc. at PO Box 112, Saunderstown, RI. 02874-0112.

topOPENDAP_GET_DATA

result = OPENDAP_GET_DATA(url [, opendap_data], debug [, CE=string] [, /DEFLATE] [, SEQ_BLOCKSIZE=long], MODE=ulong)

Function to establish a connection and get OPeNDAP data.

Return value

Status (1=ok, 0=fail)

Parameters

url in required type=string

URL location to connect to

opendap_data out optional type=any

Returns the requested OPeNDAP data as an IDL structure

debug in required type=int

set to 1 to debug

Keywords

CE in optional type=string

Data constraint expression

DEFLATE in optional type=boolean

ACCEPT_DEFLATE flag (1=yes (default), 0=no)

SEQ_BLOCKSIZE in optional type=long default=4096

How many elements should be allocated at once for sequence data; default value is 4096

MODE in required type=ulong

mode flag for data request; 1 (dds), 4 (fulldds), 3 (fulldata)

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