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BCReader bugs

Open juliasloan25 opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Bug 1 In the BCReader module's bcfile_info_init function, we set a default parameter value date0 = nothing. However, this fails later in the function when we try to call datetime_to_strdate(date0), which isn't defined to work on nothing. See the issue here: https://github.com/CliMA/ClimaCoupler.jl/blob/main/src/BCReader.jl#L148

  • This can be fixed by adding a line date0 == nothing ? date0 = data_dates[1] : nothing before setting segment_idx0

Bug 2 A related issue is the use of a magic number in a BCReader test here. I'm not sure why this value is hardcoded, but I believe it isn't necessary if we make the change to bcfile_info_init above.

  • This can be fixed by making the date0 fix in bcfile_info_init and not passing segment_idx0 to the constructor.

Bug 3 This module's update_midmonth_data! function also fails when the date passed in (date) is the same as the first date in the datafile. This should fall under the first case of if statements, but since the second comparison uses < instead of <=, it doesn't enter any of the cases.

  • This can be fixed by changing < to <= here.

Note Since the BCReader module had to be copied to ClimaLSM as of https://github.com/CliMA/ClimaLSM.jl/issues/243, these fixes are all implemented there and can be copied here.

juliasloan25 avatar Jun 21 '23 22:06 juliasloan25