readsafely not defined

[axsk]

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using JLD
JLD.readsafely

returns a ERROR: UndefVarError: readsafely not defined. This happens for me on Julia 0.4.6 with the latest JLD release as well as master.

[timholy]

Have you run into a situation where you think this might help you? In other words, I'm wondering if I should remove it from the docs or re-implement it. It's currently in JLD00.jl but not JLD.jl.

[axsk]

Not realy. I just tried it because I am having problems reading .jld files I saved 2 weeks ago:

ulia> JLD.load("jul16/pl1s0.1r0.00033981209046252456t1atrue.jld")
WARNING: UndefVarError(:load)
 in load at /home/numerik/bzfsikor/.julia/v0.4/FileIO/src/loadsave.jl:82
 in load at /home/numerik/bzfsikor/.julia/v0.4/FileIO/src/loadsave.jl:45
ERROR: UndefVarError: load not defined
 in load at /home/numerik/bzfsikor/.julia/v0.4/FileIO/src/loadsave.jl:82
 in load at /home/numerik/bzfsikor/.julia/v0.4/FileIO/src/loadsave.jl:45

Strangely enough the files 2 days before work fine. Guess I'll recheck my changes.

[timholy]

That's really weird. You might want to insert a @show Library at that spot in FileIO and see what's going on.

[axsk]

Since back then I multiple times ran into situations where I needed to just quickly read in some data from an old version of a type but there was no simple way. Of course the readas trick works, but it is still quite cumbersome if used in a runtime environment, where I merely need to read in old data a single time, e.g. for manual conversion or comparison. I see that defining the proper translate/readas is the proper way for handling these problems inbetween published package versions, but I think it is overkill for inbetween work.

TL;DR: I opt for reimplementation.