0.5.0

Version 0.5 (2017/07/22)

The core of this release consists of API improvements to simplify common tasks:

• The datasets and catalog references can now be grabbed from their collections by position (index) (as well as by name).
• Collections of datasets and catalog references now have helper functions that allow extracting a time range or item closest to a time, assuming the entries have appropriately formatted times in the names.
• Datasets gained functions that simplify setting up access over various TDS services
• A catalog with a latest dataset now has a latest attribute that points directly to this dataset

Issues Closed

• Issue 136 - Simplify access to download services
• Issue 135 - Add datetime filtering of datasets
• Issue 134 - Improved dataset indexing
• Issue 102 - NCSS validate_query with no variables
• Issue 83 - API warts

In this release 5 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

• PR 143 - BUG: Fix empty set returned from validate_query (Fixes #102)
• PR 140 - Improve API
• PR 132 - DOCFIX: Added info about using 'all'
• PR 129 - Fix build
• PR 127 - Handle more data types when parsing dataset.xml

In this release 5 pull requests were closed.