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clawhdf5/crates/clawhdf5-format
osobhandClaude Opus 5.5 bb39be7f24 fix(format): keep reading the floats and empty strings clawhdf5 v2.7.0 wrote
Two of the datatype checks added on this branch refused files clawhdf5
itself wrote up to v2.7.0: it put the sign bit of every float at
position 63 (so every f32 it wrote failed "sign bit position out of
bounds", including every agent store's embeddings), and wrote an
empty-string attribute with a size-0 string type ("invalid datatype
size", failing every attribute of the object). libhdf5 refuses both, but
neither decodes to wrong values (an IEEE float's sign position is not
used; a size-0 string is empty), so this reader keeps accepting them.

New fixtures written by clawhdf5 v2.7.0 (FileBuilder with every datatype,
layout and attribute kind it could write, and a FileWriter paged file)
and legacy_writer_files.rs, which reads every object of them. The agent's
v2.5.0 store fixture (float16_store) passes again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-26 00:34:44 -05:00
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clawhdf5-format

crates.io docs.rs

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_std support (disable std feature)
  • 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