add_string_variable removed

[kiranshila]

I'm updating my project to your recent version that utilizes the fork of HDF5, but am running into an error that add_string_variable has been removed. I don't see a changelog, and a cursory look around doesn't indicate an obvious replacement.

Before I had something like:

let mut reim = file.add_string_variable("reim", &["reim"])?;
reim.put_attribute("long_name", "Complex")?;
reim.put_string("real", 0)?;
reim.put_string("imaginary", 1)?;

which now doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

[mulimoen]

add_string_variable was removed in preference to typing out the netCDF type explicitely. You can use the below as a replacement

let mut reim = file.add_variable_with_type("reim", &["reim"], &netcdf::types::NcVariableType::String)?;
reim.put_attribute("long_name", "Complex")?;
reim.put_string("real", 0)?;
reim.put_string("imaginary", 1)?;

[kiranshila]

This seems regressive, what's the motivation for not having the convenience constructor?

[mulimoen]

This was removed at the same time as support for user-defined types were added. It felt redundant at the time to have so many constructors