n5: prevent failure on missing group metadata #651
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In the N5 spec, https://github.com/saalfeldlab/n5#file-system-specification
point 3, the
{"n5": "$version"}
metadata is only expected at the root level.Datasets missing the metadata on inner groups fail to load:
This changes the group parsing logic to not fail if the metadata is
missing. Suggestions welcome on how to detect the top group/array in
order to special case the parsing.
see tischi/i2k-2020-s3-zarr-workshop#1 (comment) for the original report
TODO: