Creating Attributes for a File

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All,

I attempted creating the attribute for a file as below .

hid_t attr = H5Acreate(fileid,"Save Status", H5T_NATIVE_HBOOL, space,
H5P_DEFAULT);

space is defined as

                    hsize_t dims[1]={1};

                    hid_t space = H5Screate_simple(1, dims, NULL);

On execution I get this error

HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 library version: 1.6.5 thread 0. Back
trace follows.

  #000: ..\..\src\H5A.c line 178 in H5Acreate(): location is not valid
for an attribute

    major(01): Function arguments

    minor(03): Inappropriate type

Can someone let me if at all we can create attributes with a file
identifier ?. If yes, how ?

Regards

Ramakrishnan

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Hi Ramakrishnan,

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On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:21 AM, Ramakrishnan Iyer wrote:

All,
I attempted creating the attribute for a file as below .
hid_t attr = H5Acreate(fileid,"Save Status", H5T_NATIVE_HBOOL, space, H5P_DEFAULT);
space is defined as
                    hsize_t dims[1]={1};
                    hid_t space = H5Screate_simple(1, dims, NULL);
On execution I get this error
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 library version: 1.6.5 thread 0. Back trace follows.
  #000: ..\..\src\H5A.c line 178 in H5Acreate(): location is not valid for an attribute
    major(01): Function arguments
    minor(03): Inappropriate type

Can someone let me if at all we can create attributes with a file identifier ?. If yes, how ?

  This should work, with later versions of the 1.6 or 1.8 release branches.

  Quincey