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@pp-mo pp-mo commented Jun 29, 2022

A feature extension to keep data lazy in xarray output


# This identifies a VariableMimic as an array-like object to which LAZY
# data can be written (a dask array).
_ACCEPTS_LAZY_DATA_WRITES = True
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NOTE: thinking this over, I now think this mechanism is pretty awful.

If we simply accept that we can only replace lazy content wholesale, then we can provide a method specifically for that.
E.G.

    def set_lazy_content(self, array):
        if not all(hasattr(array,x) for x in ('compute', '__setitem__', 'shape')):
            raise ValueError(f'Assigned content, {array} must be a lazy array.')
        self._xr = array

That way,

  1. the existence of set_lazy_content can be used as the capability test used by the assigner ('da.store' replacement)
  2. we don't need the complex _indexes_address_full_shape code.

@pp-mo pp-mo closed this Mar 4, 2024
@pp-mo pp-mo deleted the nc_dataset_save_lazystream branch March 4, 2024 12:11
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