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dataset encodings 'source' and 'original_shape' are not dropped in zarr backend #7129

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What happened?

When opening a dataset, like one from the tutorial, and writing it as zarr file, an error is raised due to encodings that are invalid for the zarr driver, when the encoding is given in to_zarr. In this particular case, the encodings source and original_shape are added by xarray itself, so that I expect that it can handle these encodings without raising an error.

What did you expect to happen?

I expect that the encodings source and original_shape being dropped similar to the netCDF4 backend.

Minimal Complete Verifiable Example

import xarray as xr
ds = xr.tutorial.load_dataset("eraint_uvz")
ds.to_zarr("test.zarr", encoding={"z":{**ds.z.encoding}})

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Relevant log output

>>> ds.to_zarr("test_w_offset.zarr01", encoding={"z":{**ds.z.encoding}})
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File ".../.conda/envs/xarray2022090/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xarray/core/dataset.py", line 2068, in to_zarr
    return to_zarr(  # type: ignore
  File ".../.conda/envs/xarray2022090/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xarray/backends/api.py", line 1653, in to_zarr
    dump_to_store(dataset, zstore, writer, encoding=encoding)
  File ".../.conda/envs/xarray2022090/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xarray/backends/api.py", line 1273, in dump_to_store
    store.store(variables, attrs, check_encoding, writer, unlimited_dims=unlimited_dims)
  File ".../.conda/envs/xarray2022090/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xarray/backends/zarr.py", line 574, in store
    self.set_variables(
  File ".../.conda/envs/xarray2022090/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xarray/backends/zarr.py", line 621, in set_variables
    encoding = extract_zarr_variable_encoding(
  File ".../.conda/envs/xarray2022090/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xarray/backends/zarr.py", line 247, in extract_zarr_variable_encoding
    raise ValueError(
ValueError: unexpected encoding parameters for zarr backend:  ['source', 'original_shape']

Anything else we need to know?

The respective lines in the netCDF4 backend are:

safe_to_drop = {"source", "original_shape"}

and

for k in safe_to_drop:
if k in encoding:
del encoding[k]

Environment

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit: None python: 3.10.6 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Aug 22 2022, 20:35:26) [GCC 10.4.0] python-bits: 64 OS: Linux OS-release: 4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64 machine: x86_64 processor: x86_64 byteorder: little LC_ALL: None LANG: en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE: ('en_US', 'UTF-8') libhdf5: 1.12.2 libnetcdf: 4.8.1

xarray: 2022.9.0
pandas: 1.5.0
numpy: 1.23.3
scipy: None
netCDF4: 1.6.1
pydap: None
h5netcdf: None
h5py: None
Nio: None
zarr: 2.13.2
cftime: 1.6.2
nc_time_axis: None
PseudoNetCDF: None
rasterio: None
cfgrib: None
iris: None
bottleneck: None
dask: None
distributed: None
matplotlib: None
cartopy: None
seaborn: None
numbagg: None
fsspec: None
cupy: None
pint: None
sparse: None
flox: None
numpy_groupies: None
setuptools: 65.4.1
pip: 22.2.2
conda: None
pytest: None
IPython: 8.3.0
sphinx: None

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