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diff --git a/src/H5Rpublic.h b/src/H5Rpublic.h
index 1fc41ec..348a7a2 100644
--- a/src/H5Rpublic.h
+++ b/src/H5Rpublic.h
@@ -42,26 +42,39 @@
/* Public Typedefs */
/*******************/
-/* Reference types */
-typedef enum H5R_type_t {
- H5R_BADTYPE = (-1), /* Invalid Reference Type */
- H5R_OBJECT, /* Object reference */
- H5R_DATASET_REGION, /* Dataset Region Reference */
- H5R_MAXTYPE /* Highest type (Invalid as true type) */
+//! <!-- [H5R_type_t_snip] -->
+/**
+ * Reference types allowed.
+ *
+ * \internal DO NOT CHANGE THE ORDER or VALUES as reference type values are
+ * encoded into the datatype message header.
+ */
+typedef enum {
+ H5R_BADTYPE = (-1), /**< Invalid reference type */
+ H5R_OBJECT, /**< Object reference */
+ H5R_DATASET_REGION, /**< Dataset Region Reference */
+ H5R_MAXTYPE /**< Highest type (Invalid as true type) */
} H5R_type_t;
+//! <!-- [H5R_type_t_snip] -->
-/* Object reference structure for user's code
+//! <!-- [hobj_ref_t_snip] -->
+/**
+ * Object reference structure for user's code
* This needs to be large enough to store largest haddr_t on a worst case
* machine (8 bytes currently).
*/
typedef haddr_t hobj_ref_t;
+//! <!-- [hobj_ref_t_snip] -->
-/* Dataset Region reference structure for user's code
+//! <!-- [hdset_reg_ref_t_snip] -->
+/**
+ * Dataset Region reference structure for user's code
* (Buffer to store heap ID and index)
* This needs to be large enough to store largest haddr_t in a worst case
* machine (8 bytes currently) plus an int
*/
typedef unsigned char hdset_reg_ref_t[H5R_DSET_REG_REF_BUF_SIZE];
+//! <!-- [hdset_reg_ref_t_snip] -->
/********************/
/* Public Variables */
@@ -75,10 +88,223 @@ typedef unsigned char hdset_reg_ref_t[H5R_DSET_REG_REF_BUF_SIZE];
extern "C" {
#endif
-H5_DLL herr_t H5Rcreate(void *ref, hid_t loc_id, const char *name, H5R_type_t ref_type, hid_t space_id);
-H5_DLL hid_t H5Rdereference2(hid_t obj_id, hid_t oapl_id, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *ref);
-H5_DLL hid_t H5Rget_region(hid_t dataset, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *ref);
-H5_DLL herr_t H5Rget_obj_type2(hid_t id, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *_ref, H5O_type_t *obj_type);
+/**
+ * --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * \ingroup H5R
+ *
+ * \brief Creates a reference
+ *
+ * \param[out] ref Reference created by the function call
+ * \param[in] loc_id Location identifier used to locate the object being pointed to
+ * \param[in] name Name of object at location \p loc_id
+ * \param[in] ref_type Type of reference
+ * \param[in] space_id Dataspace identifier with selection. Used only for
+ * dataset region references; pass as -1 if reference is
+ * an object reference, i.e., of type #H5R_OBJECT
+ *
+ * \return \herr_t
+ *
+ * \details H5Rcreate() creates the reference, \p ref, of the type specified in
+ * \p ref_type, pointing to the object \p name located at \p loc_id.
+ *
+ * The HDF5 library maps the void type specified above for \p ref to
+ * the type specified in \p ref_type, which will be one of the following:
+ * \snippet this H5R_type_t_snip
+ *
+ * The parameters \p loc_id and \p name are used to locate the object.
+ *
+ * The parameter \p space_id identifies the dataset region that a
+ * dataset region reference points to. This parameter is used only with
+ * dataset region references and should be set to -1 if the reference
+ * is an object reference, #H5R_OBJECT.
+ *
+ * \since 1.8.0
+ */
+H5_DLL herr_t H5Rcreate(void *ref, hid_t loc_id, const char *name, H5R_type_t ref_type, hid_t space_id);
+/**
+ * --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * \ingroup H5R
+ *
+ * \brief Opens the HDF5 object referenced
+ *
+ * \obj_id
+ * \oapl_id
+ * \param[in] ref_type The reference type of \p ref
+ * \param[in] ref Reference to open
+ *
+ * \return Returns identifier of referenced object if successful; otherwise
+ * returns a negative value.
+ *
+ * \details Given a reference, \p ref, to an object or a region in an object,
+ * H5Rdereference2() opens that object and returns an identifier.
+ *
+ * The parameter \p obj_id must be a valid identifier for the HDF5 file
+ * containing the referenced object or for any object in that HDF5
+ * file.
+ *
+ * The parameter \p oapl_id is an object access property list
+ * identifier for the referenced object. The access property list must
+ * be of the same type as the object being referenced, that is a group,
+ * dataset, or datatype property list.
+ *
+ * The parameter \p ref_type specifies the reference type of the
+ * reference \p ref. \p ref_type may contain either of the following
+ * values:
+ * - #H5R_OBJECT
+ * - #H5R_DATASET_REGION
+ *
+ * The object opened with this function should be closed when it is no
+ * longer needed so that resource leaks will not develop. Use the
+ * appropriate close function such as H5Oclose() or H5Dclose() for
+ * datasets.
+ *
+ * \since 1.10.0
+ *
+ */
+H5_DLL hid_t H5Rdereference2(hid_t obj_id, hid_t oapl_id, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *ref);
+/**
+ * --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * \ingroup H5R
+ *
+ * \brief Sets up a dataspace and selection as specified by a region reference
+ *
+ * \param[in] dataset File identifier or identifier for any object in the file
+ * containing the referenced region
+ * \param[in] ref_type Reference type of \p ref, which must be #H5R_DATASET_REGION
+ * \param[in] ref Region reference to open
+ *
+ * \return Returns a valid dataspace identifier if successful; otherwise returns
+ * a negative value.
+ *
+ * \details H5Rget_region() creates a copy of the dataspace of the dataset
+ * pointed to by a region reference, \p ref, and defines a selection
+ * matching the selection pointed to by ref within the dataspace copy.
+ *
+ * \p dataset is used to identify the file containing the referenced
+ * region; it can be a file identifier or an identifier for any object
+ * in the file.
+ *
+ * The parameter \p ref_type specifies the reference type of \p ref and
+ * must contain the value #H5R_DATASET_REGION.
+ *
+ * Use H5Sclose() to release the dataspace identifier returned by this
+ * function when the identifier is no longer needed.
+ *
+ */
+H5_DLL hid_t H5Rget_region(hid_t dataset, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *ref);
+/**
+ * --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * \ingroup H5R
+ *
+ * \brief Retrieves the type of object that an object reference points to
+ *
+ * \param[in] id The dataset containing the reference object or the group
+ * containing that dataset
+ * \param[in] ref_type Type of reference to query
+ * \param[in] ref Reference to query
+ * \param[out] obj_type Type of referenced object
+ *
+ * \return \herr_t
+ *
+ * \details Given an object reference, \p ref, H5Rget_obj_type2() returns the
+ * type of the referenced object in \p obj_type.
+ *
+ * A \Emph{reference type} is the type of reference, either an object
+ * reference or a dataset region reference. An \Emph{object reference}
+ * points to an HDF5 object while a \Emph{dataset region reference}
+ * points to a defined region within a dataset.
+ *
+ * The \Emph{referenced object} is the object the reference points
+ * to. The \Emph{referenced object type}, or the type of the referenced
+ * object, is the type of the object that the reference points to.
+ *
+ * The location identifier, \p id, is the identifier for either the
+ * dataset containing the object reference or the group containing that
+ * dataset.
+ *
+ * Valid reference types, to pass in as \p ref_type, include the
+ * following:
+ * \snippet this H5R_type_t_snip
+ *
+ * If the application does not already know the object reference type,
+ * that can be determined with three preliminary calls:
+ *
+ * \li Call H5Dget_type() on the dataset containing the reference to
+ * get a datatype identifier for the dataset’s datatype.
+ * \li Using that datatype identifier, H5Tget_class() returns a datatype
+ * class.\n If the datatype class is #H5T_REFERENCE, H5Tequal() can
+ * then be used to determine whether the reference’s datatype is
+ * #H5T_STD_REF_OBJ or #H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG:
+ * - If the datatype is #H5T_STD_REF_OBJ, the reference object type
+ * is #H5R_OBJECT.
+ * - If the datatype is #H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG, the reference object
+ * type is #H5R_DATASET_REGION.
+ *
+ * When the function completes successfully, it returns one of the
+ * following valid object type values (defined in H5Opublic.h):
+ * \snippet H5Opublic.h H5O_type_t_snip
+ *
+ * \since 1.8.0
+ *
+ */
+H5_DLL herr_t H5Rget_obj_type2(hid_t id, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *_ref, H5O_type_t *obj_type);
+/**
+ * --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * \ingroup H5R
+ *
+ * \brief Retrieves a name for a referenced object
+ *
+ * \param[in] loc_id Identifier for the file containing the reference or for
+ * any object in that file
+ * \param[in] ref_type Type of reference
+ * \param[in] ref An object or dataset region reference
+ * \param[out] name A buffer to place the name of the referenced object or
+ * dataset region. If \c NULL, then this call will return the
+ * size in bytes of the name.
+ * \param[in] size The size of the \p name buffer. When the size is passed in,
+ * the \c NULL terminator needs to be included.
+ *
+ * \return Returns the length of the name if successful, returning 0 (zero) if
+ * no name is associated with the identifier. Otherwise returns a
+ * negative value.
+ *
+ * \details H5Rget_name() retrieves a name for the object identified by \p ref.\n
+ * \p loc_id is used to identify the file containing the reference. It
+ * can be the file identifier for the file containing the reference or
+ * an identifier for any object in that file.
+ *
+ * \ref H5R_type_t is the reference type of \p ref. Valid values
+ * include the following:
+ * \snippet this H5R_type_t_snip
+ *
+ * \p ref is the reference for which the target object’s name is
+ * sought.
+ *
+ * If \p ref is an object reference, \p name will be returned with a
+ * name for the referenced object. If \p ref is a dataset region
+ * reference, \p name will contain a name for the object containing the
+ * referenced region.
+ *
+ * Up to \p size characters of the name are returned in \p name;
+ * additional characters, if any, are not returned to the user
+ * application.
+ *
+ * If the length of the name, which determines the required value of \p
+ * size, is unknown, a preliminary H5Rget_name() call can be made. The
+ * return value of this call will be the size of the object name. That
+ * value can then be assigned to \p size for a second H5Rget_name()
+ * call, which will retrieve the actual name.
+ *
+ * If there is no name associated with the object identifier or if the
+ * \p name is \c NULL, H5Rget_name() returns the size of the \p name
+ * buffer (the size does not include the \p NULL terminator).
+ *
+ * Note that an object in an HDF5 file may have multiple paths if there
+ * are multiple links pointing to it. This function may return any one
+ * of these paths.
+ *
+ * \since 1.8.0
+ */
H5_DLL ssize_t H5Rget_name(hid_t loc_id, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *ref, char *name /*out*/,
size_t size);
@@ -89,8 +315,110 @@ H5_DLL ssize_t H5Rget_name(hid_t loc_id, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *ref, c
#ifndef H5_NO_DEPRECATED_SYMBOLS
/* Function prototypes */
-H5_DLL H5G_obj_t H5Rget_obj_type1(hid_t id, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *_ref);
-H5_DLL hid_t H5Rdereference1(hid_t obj_id, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *ref);
+/**
+ * --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * \ingroup H5R
+ *
+ * \brief Retrieves the type of object that an object reference points to
+ *
+ * \param[in] id The dataset containing the reference object or the group
+ * containing that dataset
+ * \param[in] ref_type Type of reference to query
+ * \param[in] ref Reference to query
+ *
+ * \return Returns a valid object type if successful; otherwise returns a
+ * negative value (#H5G_UNKNOWN).
+ *
+ * \deprecated This function has been renamed from H5Rget_obj_type() and is
+ * deprecated in favor of the macro H5Rget_obj_type() or the
+ * function H5Rget_obj_type2().
+ *
+ * \details Given an object reference, \p ref, H5Rget_obj_type1() returns the
+ * type of the referenced object.
+ *
+ * A \Emph{reference type} is the type of reference, either an object
+ * reference or a dataset region reference. An \Emph{object reference}
+ * points to an HDF5 object while a \Emph{dataset region reference}
+ * points to a defined region within a dataset.
+ *
+ * The \Emph{referenced object} is the object the reference points
+ * to. The \Emph{referenced object type}, or the type of the referenced
+ * object, is the type of the object that the reference points to.
+ *
+ * The location identifier, \p id, is the identifier for either the
+ * dataset containing the object reference or the group containing that
+ * dataset.
+ *
+ * Valid reference types, to pass in as \p ref_type, include the
+ * following:
+ * \snippet this H5R_type_t_snip
+ *
+ * If the application does not already know the object reference type,
+ * that can be determined with three preliminary calls:
+ *
+ * \li Call H5Dget_type() on the dataset containing the reference to
+ * get a datatype identifier for the dataset’s datatype.
+ * \li Using that datatype identifier, H5Tget_class() returns a datatype
+ * class.\n If the datatype class is #H5T_REFERENCE, H5Tequal() can
+ * then be used to determine whether the reference’s datatype is
+ * #H5T_STD_REF_OBJ or #H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG:
+ * - If the datatype is #H5T_STD_REF_OBJ, the reference object type
+ * is #H5R_OBJECT.
+ * - If the datatype is #H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG, the reference object
+ * type is #H5R_DATASET_REGION.
+ *
+ * When the function completes successfully, it returns one of the
+ * following valid object type values (defined in H5Gpublic.h):
+ * \snippet H5Gpublic.h H5G_obj_t_snip
+ *
+ * \version 1.8.0 Function H5Rget_obj_type() renamed to H5Rget_obj_type1() and
+ * deprecated in this release.
+ * \since 1.6.0
+ *
+ */
+H5_DLL H5G_obj_t H5Rget_obj_type1(hid_t id, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *ref);
+
+/**
+ * --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * \ingroup H5R
+ *
+ * \brief Opens the HDF5 object referenced
+ *
+ * \obj_id
+ * \param[in] ref_type The reference type of \p ref
+ * \param[in] ref Reference to open
+ *
+ * \return Returns identifier of referenced object if successful; otherwise
+ * returns a negative value.
+ *
+ * \deprecated This function has been renamed from H5Rdereference() and is
+ * deprecated in favor of the macro H5Rdereference() or the function
+ * H5Rdereference2().
+ *
+ * \details Given a reference, \p ref, to an object or a region in an object,
+ * H5Rdereference1() opens that object and returns an identifier.
+ *
+ * The parameter \p obj_id must be a valid identifier for an object in
+ * the HDF5 file containing the referenced object, including the file
+ * identifier.
+ *
+ * The parameter \p ref_type specifies the reference type of the
+ * reference \p ref. \p ref_type may contain either of the following
+ * values:
+ * - #H5R_OBJECT
+ * - #H5R_DATASET_REGION
+ *
+ * The object opened with this function should be closed when it is no
+ * longer needed so that resource leaks will not develop. Use the
+ * appropriate close function such as H5Oclose() or H5Dclose() for
+ * datasets.
+ *
+ * \version 1.10.0 Function H5Rdereference() renamed to H5Rdereference1() and
+ * deprecated in this release.
+ * \since 1.8.0
+ *
+ */
+H5_DLL hid_t H5Rdereference1(hid_t obj_id, H5R_type_t ref_type, const void *ref);
#endif /* H5_NO_DEPRECATED_SYMBOLS */