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-rw-r--r--c++/src/H5DataType.cpp28
-rw-r--r--c++/src/H5DataType.h3
-rw-r--r--c++/src/H5IntType.h2
-rw-r--r--c++/test/tcompound.cpp2
-rw-r--r--c++/test/tobject.cpp26
5 files changed, 54 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/c++/src/H5DataType.cpp b/c++/src/H5DataType.cpp
index c4b1694..9040668 100644
--- a/c++/src/H5DataType.cpp
+++ b/c++/src/H5DataType.cpp
@@ -141,6 +141,22 @@ DataType::DataType(const DataType& original) : H5Object()
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Function: DataType overloaded constructor
+///\brief Creates a integer type using a predefined type
+///\param pred_type - IN: Predefined datatype
+///\exception H5::DataTypeIException
+// Programmer Binh-Minh Ribler - 2000
+// Description
+// This is so that when a predefined type is passed in, a
+// copy of it is made, not just a duplicate of the HDF5 id.
+//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+DataType::DataType(const PredType& pred_type) : H5Object()
+{
+ // use DataType::copy to make a copy of this predefined type
+ copy(pred_type);
+}
+
+//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Function: DataType::copy
///\brief Copies an existing datatype to this datatype object
///\param like_type - IN: Datatype to be copied
@@ -203,11 +219,21 @@ void DataType::copy(const DataSet& dset)
// Makes a copy of the type on the right hand side and stores
// the new id in the left hand side object.
// Programmer Binh-Minh Ribler - 2000
+// Modification
+// Changed operator= to simply copy the id of rhs instead of
+// calling H5Tcopy because, when the operator= is invoked, a
+// different datatype id is created and it won't have the same
+// characteristics as the original one, specifically, if the
+// rhs represents a named datatype, "this" would still be a
+// transient datatype.
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
DataType& DataType::operator=( const DataType& rhs )
{
if (this != &rhs)
- copy(rhs);
+ {
+ id = rhs.id;
+ incRefCount(); // increment number of references to this id
+ }
return(*this);
}
diff --git a/c++/src/H5DataType.h b/c++/src/H5DataType.h
index 064bfe1..e2af3f3 100644
--- a/c++/src/H5DataType.h
+++ b/c++/src/H5DataType.h
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ class H5_DLLCPP DataType : public H5Object {
// Copy constructor: makes a copy of the original object
DataType( const DataType& original );
+ // Creates a copy of a predefined type
+ DataType(const PredType& pred_type);
+
// Creates a datatype by way of dereference.
DataType(const H5Location& loc, const void* ref, H5R_type_t ref_type = H5R_OBJECT, const PropList& plist = PropList::DEFAULT);
DataType(const Attribute& attr, const void* ref, H5R_type_t ref_type = H5R_OBJECT, const PropList& plist = PropList::DEFAULT);
diff --git a/c++/src/H5IntType.h b/c++/src/H5IntType.h
index 95fa642..e28f5c2 100644
--- a/c++/src/H5IntType.h
+++ b/c++/src/H5IntType.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ namespace H5 {
//! Class IntType operates on HDF5 integer datatype.
class H5_DLLCPP IntType : public AtomType {
public:
- // Creates a integer type using a predefined type
+ // Creates an integer type using a predefined type
IntType(const PredType& pred_type);
// Gets the integer datatype of the specified dataset
diff --git a/c++/test/tcompound.cpp b/c++/test/tcompound.cpp
index 156f438..dbf2f0c 100644
--- a/c++/test/tcompound.cpp
+++ b/c++/test/tcompound.cpp
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ static void test_compound_set_size()
CompType dtype_tmp = file.openCompType("dtype");
// Make a copy of the data type
- dtype = dtype_tmp;
+ dtype.copy(dtype_tmp);
// Verify that the compound is not packed
// packed = dtype_tmp.packed(); // not until C library provides API
diff --git a/c++/test/tobject.cpp b/c++/test/tobject.cpp
index c74d34a..2381ec2 100644
--- a/c++/test/tobject.cpp
+++ b/c++/test/tobject.cpp
@@ -182,20 +182,38 @@ static void test_get_objname_ontypes()
// Create a datatype and save it
IntType inttype(PredType::STD_B8LE);
+ inttype.commit(file, "INT type of STD_B8LE");
+ // Close the type then open it again to test getting its name
+ inttype.close();
+ inttype = file.openIntType("INT type of STD_B8LE");
+
+ // Get and verify its name
+ H5std_string inttype_name = inttype.getObjName();
+ verify_val(inttype_name, "/INT type of STD_B8LE", "DataType::getObjName", __LINE__, __FILE__);
+
+ // Make copy of a predefined type and save it
DataType dtype(PredType::STD_B8LE);
dtype.commit(file, "STD_B8LE");
+ // Close the data type and file
+ dtype.close();
+ file.close();
+
+ // Re-open the file and the data type to test getting its name
+ file.openFile(FILE_OBJECTS, H5F_ACC_RDWR);
+ dtype = file.openDataType("STD_B8LE");
+
// Get and verify its name
H5std_string type_name = dtype.getObjName();
- verify_val(type_name, "/STD_B8LE", "DataSet::getObjName", __LINE__, __FILE__);
+ verify_val(type_name, "/STD_B8LE", "DataType::getObjName", __LINE__, __FILE__);
// Test getting type's name from copied type
DataType copied_type;
copied_type.copy(dtype);
copied_type.commit(file, "copy of STD_B8LE");
type_name = copied_type.getObjName();
- verify_val(type_name, "/copy of STD_B8LE", "DataSet::getObjName", __LINE__, __FILE__);
+ verify_val(type_name, "/copy of STD_B8LE", "DataType::getObjName", __LINE__, __FILE__);
// Test copying an integer predefined type
IntType new_int_type(PredType::NATIVE_INT);
@@ -203,8 +221,8 @@ static void test_get_objname_ontypes()
// Name this datatype
new_int_type.commit(grp, "IntType NATIVE_INT");
ssize_t name_len = new_int_type.getObjName(type_name); // default len
- verify_val(name_len, (ssize_t)HDstrlen("/typetests/IntType NATIVE_INT"), "DataSet::getObjName", __LINE__, __FILE__);
- verify_val(type_name, "/typetests/IntType NATIVE_INT", "DataSet::getObjName", __LINE__, __FILE__);
+ verify_val(name_len, (ssize_t)HDstrlen("/typetests/IntType NATIVE_INT"), "DataType::getObjName", __LINE__, __FILE__);
+ verify_val(type_name, "/typetests/IntType NATIVE_INT", "DataType::getObjName", __LINE__, __FILE__);
// Close everything or they can be closed when objects go out of scope
dtype.close();