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HDF5/H5F Draft API Specification
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<h1>H5F: File Interface</h1>
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<h2>File API Functions</h2>
These functions are designed to provide file-level access to HDF5 files.
Further manipulation of objects inside a file is performed through one of APIs
documented below.
<table border=0>
<tr><td valign=top>
<ul>
<li><a href="#File-Open">H5Fopen</a>
<li><a href="#File-Create">H5Fcreate</a>
</ul>
</td><td> </td><td valign=top>
<ul>
<li><a href="#File-IsHDF5">H5Fis_hdf5</a>
<li><a href="#File-GetCreateTemplate">H5Fget_create_template</a>
</ul>
</td><td> </td><td valign=top>
<ul>
<li><a href="#File-Close">H5Fclose</a>
</ul>
</td></tr>
</table>
<hr>
<dl>
<dt><strong>Name:</strong> <a name="File-Open">H5Fopen</a>
<dt><strong>Signature:</strong>
<dd><em>hid_t </em><code>H5Fopen</code>(<em>const char *</em><code>name</code>,
<em>uintn</em> <code>flags</code>,
<em>hid_t</em> <code>access_template</code>
)
<dt><strong>Description:</strong>
<dd>This is the primary function for opening existing HDF5 files.
The <code>flags</code> parameter determines the file access mode.
There is no read flag, all open files are implicitily opened for
read access.
All flags may be combined with the '|' (boolean OR operator) to
change the behavior of the file open call.
The <code>access_template</code> parameter is a template containing
additional information required for specific methods of access,
parallel I/O for example. The paramters for access templates are
described in the H5P API documentation.
<dt><strong>Parameters:</strong>
<dl>
<dt><em>const char *</em><code>name</code>
<dd>Name of the file to access.
<dt><em>uintn</em> <code>flags</code>
<dd>File access flags:
<ul><dl>
<dt>H5F_ACC_RDWR
<dd>Allow read and write access to file.
</dl></ul>
<dt><em>hid_t</em><code>access_template</code>
<dd>Template indicating the file access properties.
If parallel file access is desired, this is a collective
call according to the communicator stored in the
access_template. Use 0 for default access template.
</dl>
<dt><strong>Returns:</strong>
<dd>An ID (of type <em>hid_t</em>) for the file upon success,
otherwise negative
</dl>
<hr>
<dl>
<dt><strong>Name:</strong> <a name="File-Create">H5Fcreate</a>
<dt><strong>Signature:</strong>
<dd><em>hid_t </em><code>H5Fcreate</code>(<em>const char *</em><code>name</code>,
<em>uintn</em> <code>flags</code>,
<em>hid_t</em> <code>create_template</code>,
<em>hid_t</em> <code>access_template</code>
)
<dt><strong>Description:</strong>
<dd>This is the primary function for opening and creating HDF5 files.
The <code>flags</code> parameter determines whether an existing
file will be overwritten or not. All newly created files are opened
for both reading and writing.
All flags may be combined with the '|' (boolean OR operator) to
change the behavior of the file open call.
The <code>create_template</code> and <code>access_template</code>
parameters are templates containing additional information required
for specific methods of access or particular aspects of the file
to set when creating a file.
The parameters for creation and access templates are
described in the H5P API documentation.
<dt><strong>Parameters:</strong>
<dl>
<dt><em>const char *</em><code>name</code>
<dd>Name of the file to access.
<dt><em>uintn</em> <code>flags</code>
<dd>File access flags:
<ul><dl>
<dt>H5F_ACC_TRUNC
<dd>Truncate file, if it already exists. The file will
be truncated, erasing all data previously stored in
the file.
</dl></ul>
<dt><em>hid_t</em><code>create_template</code>
<dd>File creation template ID, used when modifying default file meta-data
<dt><em>hid_t</em><code>access_template</code>
<dd>Template indicating the file access properties.
If parallel file access is desired, this is a collective
call according to the communicator stored in the
access_template. Use 0 for default access template.
</dl>
<dt><strong>Returns:</strong>
<dd>An ID (of type <em>hid_t</em>) for the file upon success,
otherwise negative
</dl>
<hr>
<dl>
<dt><strong>Name:</strong> <a name="File-IsHDF5">H5Fis_hdf5</a>
<dt><strong>Signature:</strong>
<dd><em>hbool_t </em><code>H5Fis_hdf5</code>(<em>const char *</em><code>name</code>
)
<dt><strong>Description:</strong>
<dd>This function determines whether a file is in the HDF5 format.
<dt><strong>Parameters:</strong>
<dl>
<dt><em>const char *</em><code>name</code>
<dd>File name to check format.
</dl>
<dt><strong>Returns:</strong>
<dd>TRUE/FALSE/negative
</dl>
<hr>
<dl>
<dt><strong>Name:</strong> <a name="File-GetCreateTemplate">H5Fget_create_template</a>
<dt><strong>Signature:</strong>
<dd><em>hid_t </em><code>H5Fget_create_template</code>(<em>hid_t</em> <code>file_id</code>
)
<dt><strong>Description:</strong>
<dd>This function returns an template ID with a copy of the parameters
used to create this file. Useful for duplicating the parameters
when creating another file.
<dt><strong>Parameters:</strong>
<dl>
<dt><em>hid_t</em> <code>file_id</code>
<dd>File ID to get creation template of
</dl>
<dt><strong>Returns:</strong>
<dd>zero/negative
</dl>
<hr>
<dl>
<dt><strong>Name:</strong> <a name="File-Close">H5Fclose</a>
<dt><strong>Signature:</strong>
<dd><em>herr_t </em><code>H5Fclose</code>(<em>hid_t</em> <code>file_id</code>
)
<dt><strong>Description:</strong>
<dd>This function terminates access to an HDF5 file. If this is the
last file ID open for a file and if access IDs are still in use,
this function will fail.
<dt><strong>Parameters:</strong>
<dl>
<dt><em>hid_t</em> <code>file_id</code>
<dd>File ID to terminate access to.
</dl>
<dt><strong>Returns:</strong>
<dd>zero/negative
</dl>
<hr>
<hr>
<address>
<a href="mailto:fbaker@ncsa.uiuc.edu">Frank Baker</a>
<br>
<a href="mailto:h5docs@ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF5 Documentation</a>
<br>
Last modified: 29 June 1998
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