These wrappers provide a high and low-level Lua interface to the HDF5 library. The code provided here should be embedded in your application to give it flexible interaction with HDF5.
This demonstrates the simplest usage of the high-level HDF5 interface. It creates a file with a (numeric array-valued) data set named 'the_dataset' and group named 'the_group' containing a (string-valued) data set called 'the_message'.
local hdf5 = require 'LuaHDF5'
local array = require 'array'
local the_array = array.array({16,32,64}, 'double')
local the_h5file = hdf5.File("outfile.h5", "w")
local the_group = the_h5file:require_group("the_group")
the_group["the_message"] = "here is the message"
the_h5file["the_dataset"] = the_array
the_h5file:close()
Access to the low-level HDF5 library follows exactly the HDF5 API specification,
in other words there is one-to-one mapping between (most) HDF5 functions and
their low-level Lua wrappers. Some HDF5 functions are not wrapped, although they
can be recognized by the wrapper generator parse.py with easy modifications.
local H5 = require 'HDF5'
local buffer = require 'buffer'
local def = H5.H5P_DEFAULT
local trunc = H5.H5F_ACC_TRUNC
local double = H5.H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE
local current_size = H5.new_hsize_t_arr{10,10,10}
local maximum_size = H5.new_hsize_t_arr{10,10,10}
local fid = H5.H5Fcreate("outfile.h5", trunc, def, def)
local sid = H5.H5Screate(H5.H5S_SIMPLE)
H5.H5Sset_extent_simple(sid, 3, current_size, maximum_size)
local did = H5.H5Dcreate2(fid, "dataset", double, sid, def, def, def)
...
Make sure you have the HDF5 sources installed.
Create a file called Makefile.in which contains macros like these:
LUA_HOME = /path/to/lua-5.2.1
HDF_HOME = /path/to/hdf5-1.8.10
Additional compile flags are optional:
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -Wall -O2
LVER = lua-5.2.1 # can be lua-5.1 or other
USE_MPIO = 1 # wrap HDF5 collectve IO routines
Optionally, you may install local Lua sources by typing make lua.
Run make.
Type ./main alltests.lua.
Lua HDF5 contains a Python script to generate low-level wrapper code which has been tested for HDF5 library versions between 1.8.3 and 1.8.10. The generated Lua code is tested for Lua 5.2.1, although small adjustments may be made to support Lua 5.0 and 5.1.
An example program is provided which embeds the Lua HDF5 interface. It loads the
HDF5 module into the package.loaded.HDF5 table, which can then be accessed
within Lua by typing local H5 = require 'HDF5'. The module can be given global
visibility to Lua scripts by passing calling luaL_requiref(L, "HDF5", luaopen_hdf5, 1); with 1 instead of 0 as the last argument.
This code is made freely available for anybody's use. I only ask that if you find it useful, please send me an email about how it works, and in what project you are using it.
The Lua HDF5 wrappers are licensed under the same terms as Lua itself.
Copyright (c) 2012, Jonathan Zrake jonathan.zrake@gmail.com
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