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clawhdf5/crates/clawhdf5-format
osobhandClaude Opus 5.5 1c3ef98828 clawhdf5: File::open_storage reads any Storage through the full API
File::open_storage(Arc<dyn Storage + Send + Sync>) opens a file served by
any backend: groups, datasets, attributes, read_*, selections, VL data
and virtual datasets (external sources through the new
File::set_vds_resolver) all read through Storage::read_at/read_ranges.
The file's view (user block skipped, bounded by the recorded end of
file) is itself a Storage; File::open and File::from_bytes keep their
mmap and in-memory paths, now as that view's as_contiguous() fast path.
A storage-backed file's metadata cache image is laid over each read it
covers (new CacheImage::entries), as libhdf5 loads it.

The typed readers keep their fast paths over any storage: a contiguous
dataset is read in one piece and converted (read_f64 and friends), and a
contiguous native selection reads only its runs
(data_read::read_selection_native_in). Zero-copy methods answer
ContiguousStorageRequired when the bytes are not in memory, and
File::as_bytes panics there (File::contiguous_bytes is the fallible
form).

Test: tests/storage_equivalence.rs reads every fixture, and with
CLAWHDF5_STORAGE_CORPUS every conformance-corpus file, through File::open
and through open_storage over a read_at-only CountingStorage — tree,
attributes, and every dataset's values several ways — and requires
identical transcripts; it prints the read_at calls and bytes a one-pass
read costs per file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-26 16:41:47 -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