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Implement writing GRIB data to FDB
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We can already write earthkit-data GRIB data into an FDB as the https://earthkit-data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/grib_fdb_write.html example demonstrates. The task is now to simplify this process and allow users to do it by simply calling a method on a FieldList
.
Currently, a FieldList
can only write into a file and the API consists of the save()
and write()
methods:
def save(self, filename, append=False, **kwargs):
r"""Write all the fields into a file."""
def write(self, f, **kwargs):
r"""Write all the fields to a file object."""
write()
can also be called on a Field
.
Now, the primary task is to extend this public API
to allow for using a target
in save()
. It is not clear how to do it. Some possible solutions:
- use different method names for each target:
ds.to_file(filename, append=False, **kwargs) ds.to_fdb(fdb_object, **kwargs)
- add all options to
save()
:ds.save(target="file", fileName="data.grib", append=False, **kwargs) ds.save(target="fdb", fdb=fdb_object, **kwargs)
- use a
to_target()
method:ds.to_target("file", fileName, append=True, **kwargs) ds.to_target("fdb", fdb_oject, **kwargs)
### Organisation
ECMWF