An empty AttrValue::String (or a StringArray of empty strings) was
written with a size-0 fixed-length string type. libhdf5 rejects that
("invalid datatype size"), and the failure takes every attribute on the
object with it. Strings are now at least 1 byte, NUL-padded, which is
how h5py stores "" and reads back as "" in both h5py and our reader.
check_encodable also refuses a size-0 string type passed in directly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
clawhdf5-format
Pure-Rust HDF5 binary format parsing and writing — no C dependencies.
Features
- Zero-copy superblock, object header, and B-tree parsing
- Chunked dataset read/write with filter pipelines
no_stdsupport (disablestdfeature)- Optional parallel reads via Rayon
- SHA-256 provenance tracking
Usage
use clawhdf5_format::Superblock;
let data = std::fs::read("data.h5").unwrap();
let sb = Superblock::from_bytes(&data).unwrap();
println!("HDF5 version {}.{}", sb.version_major(), sb.version_minor());
License
MIT