From aae2bcf6f9601651a7eb51bf813e3a58f66dd3ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chen <chenzhang8722@gamil.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 09:47:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add new interface class to HDF5

---
 lib/damask/h5table.py | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 101 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lib/damask/h5table.py

diff --git a/lib/damask/h5table.py b/lib/damask/h5table.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..553d53010
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/damask/h5table.py
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+# -*- coding: UTF-8 no BOM -*-
+
+import os
+import sys
+import h5py
+import numpy as np
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# python 3 has no unicode object, this ensures that the code works #
+# on Python 2&3                                                    #
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------- #
+try:
+  test=isinstance('test', unicode)
+except(NameError):
+  unicode=str
+
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------- #
+# Singleton class for converting feature name to H5F path #
+# ------------------------------------------------------- #
+# NOTE:
+#   1. use simple diction to mimic the singleton class in
+#   C++/Java
+#   2. data structure
+#   {<FEATURE_NAME>: (<TYPE>, <PATH>), ...}
+#       <FEATURE_NAME> ==> the name of the feature, e.g. f, ...
+#       <TYPE> ==> attribute, dataset
+#       <PATH> ==> path_in_HDF5_file, e.g. '/f'
+#   3. for future HDF5 data structure, this can be convert
+#      into a function to get more complicated path, this would
+#      be a great time to integrate XML parser
+def lables_to_path(label):
+    """ read the xml definition file and return the path."""
+    path = '/{}'.format(lable)
+    return path
+
+
+# ----------------------- #
+# H5Table interface class #
+# ----------------------- #
+class H5Table(object):
+    """
+    DESCRIPTION
+    -----------
+        Container class for interfacing with HDF5 file format. This
+        is a bare-bone interface class that provide simplified getter
+        and setter for retrieving and appending data and attributes.
+    PARAMETERS
+    ----------
+    h5f_path
+    METHOD
+    ------
+    get_attr()
+    add_attr()
+    del_attr()
+
+    get_data()
+    add_data()
+    del_data()
+    NOTE
+    ----
+        1. As an interface class, it uses the lazy evaluation design
+        that read the data only when its absolutely necessary.
+        2.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, h5f_path):
+        """
+        """
+        self.h5f_path = h5f_path
+
+    def get_attr(self, feature_name=None):
+        """
+        """
+        h5f = h5py.File(self.h5f_path, 'r')
+        pass
+
+    def add_attr(self, ):
+        """
+        """
+        pass
+
+    def del_attr(self, ):
+        """
+        """
+        pass
+
+    def get_data(self, ):
+        """
+        """
+        pass
+
+    def add_data(self, ):
+        """
+        """
+        pass
+
+    def del_data(self, ):
+        """
+        """
+        pass
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