Since that discussion, unsigned bytes, shorts and ints were added to the CF data types in CF 1.9.
This PR would add support for Netcdf-java's unsigned datatypes. The numeric datatypes handled here include the ones previously handled (FLOAT, DOUBLE, BYTE, INT, SHORT, LONG) and adds support for UBYTE, UINT, USHORT, ULONG.
Additionally, this PR adds a test for reading unsigned data and a small refactor of an existing test.
I found an old discussion of unsigned data here: https://github.com/Reading-eScience-Centre/edal-java/issues/126.
Since that discussion, unsigned bytes, shorts and ints were added to the CF data types in CF 1.9.
This PR would add support for Netcdf-java's unsigned datatypes. The numeric datatypes handled here include the ones previously handled (
FLOAT,DOUBLE,BYTE,INT,SHORT,LONG) and adds support forUBYTE,UINT,USHORT,ULONG.Additionally, this PR adds a test for reading unsigned data and a small refactor of an existing test.