DSTemplater

class obsarray.templater.dstemplater.DSTemplater(templates: Dict | None = None, metadata_defs: Dict | None = None)

Class to generate xarray.Dataset’s from a set of templates.

Parameters:

• templates – template dictionary for each product format

• metadata_defs – metadata for each product format

Each dictionary has as keys "template_name" strings that define the names of the different available dataset templates, e.g. “Level-0”.

For the templates dictionary the corresponding entries should be a variable definition dictionary.

For metadata_defs the corresponding entries should be a dictionary of per product metadata.

__init__(templates: Dict | None = None, metadata_defs: Dict | None = None)

Methods

__init__
create	Returns template dataset
create_size_dict	Returns empty size dictionary for specified template
return_ds_format_variable_dict	Returns variable definition info for specified template variable
return_template_dim_names	Returns dims required for specified template
return_template_names	Returns available ds template names
return_template_var_names	Returns variables for specified template