Ryan Ly

### What happened? If a user adds a custom ~indexed~ column to a DynamicTable as part of their pipeline, but the column happens to be empty, HDMF cannot determine the...

Refactor docval shape validation

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In the process of writing unit tests on shape validation in docval, I realized that the interaction of shape validation and default values is not clear cut. For example, if...

[Feature]: Replace docval with better strict type and shape validation system with type hints

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### What would you like to see added to HDMF? I realized we have discussed this many times in the past year but we do not have an issue for...

[Feature]: Add `load_namespaces` and `get_namespaces` to `HDMFIO`

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### What would you like to see added to HDMF? It's useful in validation to load or get namespaces from an IO object but right now those are implemented per-backend....

Session description is set to empty string by default

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### Describe the issue `NWBFile.session_description` is a required dataset in the NWB schema. Going through the tutorial, this field is not set by default. During conversion, the `session_description` is set...

UnitColumns table is not editable

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### Describe the issue The UnitColumns table on the File Metadata page is not editable. The ElectrodeColumns and Electrode Groups tables are editable. The Summarized Units > Phy Sorting table...

Inspector warns about "Subject description is missing" but Subject form does not highlight subject description as yellow

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### Describe the issue As title states. I also don't recall this warning appearing before from the inspector. I'm not sure what changed. ### Steps to Reproduce Go through single...

Proposal for tracking row-based provenance

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For common tables, users may accidentally (or intentionally) modify a row created by another user. So it is useful to know who was the last person who modified a row...

### What happened? `keywords` is a 1D dataset of `NWBFile`. `NWBFile` does not validate the shape of some array arguments in `__init__`. In cases like this where shape validation is...

Modification to Fix conversion of Zarr string dataset to HDF5

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Proposed changes to #1171. It would be nice if `HDF5IO` and the `ObjectMapper` can accept any Zarr array just like it accepts any Numpy array, instead of accepting only Zarr...