[svn-r28905] Purpose: Fix user reported problem

Description:
    User Adam Rosenberger reported a failure when using the member function
    AbstractDs::getArrayType().  This problem was caused by missing
    initialization of the ArrayType's members in some cases.
Solution:
    - Added ArrayType::setArrayInfo() to retrieve rank and dimensions of
      an array and store them in memory for easy access.
    - Re-factored a few functions to use the new function.
    - We'll give him 1.8.16 patch
Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    Linux/64 (platypus)
    Darwin (osx1010test)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/c++/src/H5ArrayType.h b/c++/src/H5ArrayType.h
index 6577a6e..c0f4b38 100644
--- a/c++/src/H5ArrayType.h
+++ b/c++/src/H5ArrayType.h
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ class H5_DLLCPP ArrayType : public DataType {
 	// specified base type.
 	ArrayType(const DataType& base_type, int ndims, const hsize_t* dims);
 
+	// Stores the rank and dimensions in memory.
+	void setArrayInfo();
+
 	// Returns the number of dimensions of this array datatype.
 	int getArrayNDims();