Trouble opening OPeNDAP endpoint ending with .ncml

[rsignell-usgs]

When I try to add this OPeNDAP Data Endpoint http://geoport-dev.whoi.edu/thredds/dodsC/clay/usgs/users/zdefne/run076/his/00_dir_roms_display.ncml in the Location field in for a new dataset (called "Barnegat-DAP") in the ncWMS2 admin GUI, I get an Error:

Status of dataset Barnegat-DAP (for debugging)

State: ERROR
Loading progress

Starting loading
Using dataset factory: class uk.ac.rdg.resc.edal.dataset.cdm.CdmGridDatasetFactory
Error report

Stack trace:
uk.ac.rdg.resc.edal.exceptions.DataReadingException :Problem reading underlying NetCDF dataset
uk.ac.rdg.resc.edal.dataset.cdm.NetcdfDatasetAggregator.openDataset(NetcdfDatasetAggregator.java:396)
...

I'm guessing that that this is because this OPeNDAP endpoint ends in '.ncml', so edal-java is assuming that it is an NcML file instead of an OPeNDAP data endpoint?

This used to be a problem with netcdf-java, but it is not a problem with recent versions. It opens just fine in ToolsUI, for example:

[guygriffiths]

OK, thanks for pointing this out. It's an easy enough fix in itself, but it's highlighting the missing image issue you found here: https://github.com/Reading-eScience-Centre/edal-java/issues/46#issuecomment-238984611

I'll close this issue once we've done a release, but I'll wait until I've fixed the SGRID/NcML issues first

[rsignell-usgs]

Just to clarify, we still have the issue of ncWMS2 thinking that a URL that ends in .ncml must be an NcML file, right? Or at least that an OPeNDAP endpoint with .ncml at the end is not being opened as OPeNDAP?

[guygriffiths]

No, I've fixed it, certainly in my local copy if not the github develop branch. It'll work in the next release.

[rsignell-usgs]

Okay! Looking forward to next release!