Some ecCodes keys like centre can be accessed both as number and string. It would be great if pdbufr could support the ecCodes type notations (see e.g. bufr_ls) to specify the return type of the key values. The notation is simply based on adding the :[d,i,s] suffix to a key to specify a float, int or string return type. For example, for an ECMWF BUFR message centre:s would result in "ecmf" while centre:i would result in 98.
Some ecCodes keys like centre can be accessed both as number and string. It would be great if pdbufr could support the ecCodes type notations (see e.g. bufr_ls) to specify the return type of the key values. The notation is simply based on adding the :[d,i,s] suffix to a key to specify a float, int or string return type. For example, for an ECMWF BUFR message centre:s would result in "ecmf" while centre:i would result in 98.