A version-1 shared message reference is version, type, six reserved bytes and then an old-style symbol table entry: link-name offset (length size), object header address, cache type, reserved, scratch. We read the address straight after the reserved bytes, i.e. the link-name offset, and the committed datatype lookup failed with InvalidObjectHeaderVersion (the bytes checked in tcompound.h5: name offset 0x10, then 0x590 = /type1). Datasets of 1.4/1.6-era files that use a committed datatype were unreadable. Skip the name offset. parse_shared_ref has no length size, so add parse_shared_ref_sized and use it in every internal caller; parse_shared_ref keeps its signature and assumes length size == offset size. The old parse_v1_ref unit test encoded the wrong layout and now uses the real bytes. 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