FileWriter wrote the root group plus one level of groups, and refused
path-like names. The writer now flattens its builders into a group tree
(writer_tree.rs) before layout:
- A name may be a path ("a/b/x", "/a/b/x" at the root); missing
intermediate groups are created as h5py does, and GroupBuilder gains
create_group/add_group so builders nest to any depth. A group added at a
path that already holds a group is merged into it (require_group);
any other repeated name, an empty or "." component, or an absolute path
below the root is an error.
- add_soft_link, add_hard_link and add_external_link on FileWriter,
FileBuilder and GroupBuilder. Hard-link targets are resolved to objects
at finish (through other hard links; a missing target, a soft link on the
way or a cycle of paths is an error). Objects with several hard links get
an Object Reference Count message so libhdf5 can delete one link without
freeing the object.
- track_order(true) per group, or as the file default, tracks and indexes
link creation order: Link Info flags and max order, the order in each
Link message, and a type-6 creation-order B-tree for dense groups.
- A group's link index is one B-tree leaf; more than 65535 links is an
error.
Groups are laid out depth-first from the root, datasets group by group,
and untracked groups keep writing datasets, then groups, then other links:
files with one level of groups are byte-identical to before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
With the header checks merged, the library refuses truncated files and
misaligned chunk-index keys itself, so check reported only "file cannot
be opened" for a truncated file. It now reports the truncation (stored
end of file vs file length) or the library's error, and the misaligned
chunk test accepts the library's refusal of the key.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Measured on tank on the 150 cvefiles/ and fuzzerfiles/ of cve_hdf5 (the
earlier text said 180): check --data passes 16 (was 28), and h5dump
1.14.6 rejects 9 of those (was 21). It still flags none of the 418
conformance files both readers read in full.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
dump_matches_h5dump requires byte identity with the h5dump on PATH, and
CI's rust:latest (Debian 13.7) installs hdf5-tools 1.14.5, not the 1.14.6
the test was written against. Ran the whole clawhdf5-tools suite in
rust:latest with Debian's hdf5-tools and pip h5py 3.16.0 (HDF5 2.0.0), as
CI sets it up, with CLAWHDF5_REQUIRE_INTEROP=1: 18 of 18 pass, so the
comparison needs no loosening. The version is now printed in the CI log
so a future Debian update that changes the output is easy to spot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
A null-padded fixed string inside a compound or an array member printed
trimmed ("" for three NULs, "a" for "a\0b"), where h5dump prints every
byte ("\000\000\000", "a\000b"); only top-level strings were shown in
full. DATA blocks now render elements through one function that keeps
the padding at any depth.
The README now lists the remaining known differences from h5dump:
nested compounds print inline, and long double values are printed as
errors (exit 1) with the datatype as an H5T_FLOAT block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
The README said check skips only "global heap collections other than
those a value read touches", but read_dataset returns the raw heap IDs,
so no collection was ever read: a file whose global heap collection
claims a 4 GiB object passed `check --data` with no problems, while
h5dump (and h5rs dump/diff) fail on it.
With --data, every variable-length element (strings and sequences, also
inside compounds, arrays and nested sequences) of every dataset and
attribute is followed into its collection. A collection that does not
parse, a missing heap object, or a sequence longer than its heap object
is a problem at the collection's address, once per object; the summary
counts the collections read.
Measured on tank, 2026-09-26: the 418 fully-read conformance ok files
still pass (scripts/h5rs-check-ok-files.sh --data, 0 flagged), and
`check --data` now flags 152 of the 180 CVE-corpus files (was 147); of
the 28 it passes, h5dump 1.14.6 rejects 21 (was 26 of 33).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
-c meant "list at most N differences" in h5rs, but in h5diff -c is
--compare (a flag) and the count is -n/--count=N, so a script moved over
from h5diff behaved differently: `h5diff -r -c 2 A B` exits 2 (the 2 is
taken as a file name) while h5rs exited 1.
The count is now -n/--count, -c/--compare is accepted (h5rs always lists
objects that are not comparable), and the --count=N, --delta=D,
--relative=R forms are accepted; exit codes equal h5diff's on 7 cases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
An OBJ that was a soft link was resolved and its target object compared,
so two files whose /g/s both point at /z differed when /z did: exit 1,
where h5diff (without --follow-symlinks) compares the links' target paths
and exits 0.
A soft link is now compared as a link wherever it is, OBJ included.
--follow-symlinks compares the objects soft links lead to instead, walks
into soft-linked groups, resolves relative targets against the link's
group, and treats two dangling links as the same; exit codes equal
h5diff's on 14 cases. External links are never followed (documented).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
With a tolerance, integers were converted to f64 before comparing, so
int64/uint64 values above 2^53 that differ compared equal: -d 0 on 2^60
and 2^60 + 1 exited 0, where h5diff exits 1. Integer pairs are now
compared in i128 (the delta against floor(D), the relative quotient from
an exact difference), and the report prints the exact difference.
h5diff compares exactly when -p is below the f64 epsilon (2^60 and
2^60 + 1 differ at -p 1e-18, and nextafter(2, 0) and 2 at -p 1.5e-16);
h5rs now does the same.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
The path walk skipped the second hard link to an object, so a file that
shares one dataset between /x and /y differed from a file holding two
identical copies: "</y> exists only in <B>", exit 1, where h5diff exits 0.
For a hard-linked group every member was reported the same way.
diff now enumerates every path below the start object (a hard link back
to an ancestor is recorded but not descended into), so each name is
compared. A group whose links cannot be read is now an error instead of
an empty group.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Measured on the CVE corpus: check --data passes 33 of 180 files, and
h5dump 1.14.6 rejects 26 of those. Recorded under the open "Header checks"
gap and in the crate README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
New workspace crate clawhdf5-tools with one binary, h5rs, built only on the
clawhdf5 facade and clawhdf5-format (no libhdf5, no C):
- ls [-r] [-v] FILE[/path]: h5ls's listing (same text in its first two
columns) plus the datatype; -v adds address, link count, layout and chunk
index, chunk size, storage, filters, datatype and attributes.
- dump [--json] [-A] [-p] [-d PATH] FILE: h5dump DDL (byte-identical to
h5dump 1.14.6 on the test files) or hdf5-json.
- stat FILE: h5stat's object/link/rank/layout/filter/attribute counts, raw
data and total size.
- diff [-r] [-q] [-d D] [-p R] A B [OBJ1 [OBJ2]]: structural and value
differences, exit 0/1/2 like h5diff.
- check [--data] FILE: walks every object, parses every message, verifies
the checksums of every v2+ structure (including the fractal heap blocks
the library never checks), checks chunk indexes against their datasets
and raw data for out-of-file or overlapping extents; every problem with
its address.
Values over --max-bytes are reported, not read; dense-storage heaps are
verified before objects are read from them; panics are caught (exit 3).
Tests compare with h5ls, h5stat, h5dump and h5diff and with h5py's values,
and flip the checksum of every checksummed structure in a v1.14-format file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
