Add IQuerable interface to build hyperslabs?

[Apollo3zehn]

Edit (2023-01-03)

An experimental IQueryable support has been implemented as dataset.AsQueryable(). Stream support could be implemented similar in the form of dataset.AsStream();.

However, this is still an option:

dataset.Read().Execute(),
dataset.Read().Skip(1).Take(2).Execute()
dataset.Read().AsStream()

The advanage is that dataset.Read.Execute() is also a query, so there is only query and stream. But it is not quite clean to create a IQueryable first to finally get a stream.

Stream and query make mostly sense for 1-dimensional data. Stream cannot be implemented on multidimensional data since the data are not written linerarly into the memory.

Original Issue

LINQ to HDF?

// this could build a netCDF hyperslab (start, stop, stride)
dataset
   .Skip([]) // = start
   .Take(ulong[]) // = stop - start
   .Where((x, n) => n % nth == 0) // stride
   .Read<int>();

// this could build an HDF5 hyperslab (start, stride, count, block)
dataset
   .Skip([]) // = start
   .Where((x, n) => n % nth == 0) // stride
   .Repeat(y) // count (https://fuqua.io/Rx.NET/ix-docs/html/M_System_Linq_QueryableEx_Repeat__1_3.htm)
   .Take(ulong[]) // block
   .Read<int>();

https://jacopretorius.net/2010/01/implementing-a-custom-linq-provider.html

• skip expression = new hyperslab
• take expression = += block
• repeat expression = += count
• stride expression = += stride
• where = compile and execute (only once?)
• select expression (only once?)
• first, any, last, single, sum ...?
• Enumerable.Range(0, 9).Chunk(3)? (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/new-dotnet-6-apis-driven-by-the-developer-community)

LINQ Part 3: An Introduction to IQueryable - CodeProject
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1240553/LINQ-Part-An-Introduction-to-IQueryable

Returning IEnumerable vs. IQueryable - Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2876616/returning-ienumerablet-vs-iqueryablet