A python package to enable quick searches of Hierarchical Data Format (HDF)-Files based on JSONPath. These files include the HDF5-Format provided by h5py as well as more recent libraries like zarr. Like jsonpath-ng any data structure consisting of dict-like objects conforming to the collections.abc.Mapping-interface and lists is also supported.

This package is derived from the jsonpath-ng library. For the query syntax and capabilities please refer to the original documentation at https://github.com/h2non/jsonpath-ng

pip install hdfpath

git clone https://github.com/mortacious/hdfpath.git
cd hdfpath
python setup.py install

As HDF-Files are organized as groups containing datasets with both containing optional metadata attributes, this package adds support to use these attributes directly inside queries. With the optional metadata_attribute parameter to the parse function, the attribute to retrieve the metadata can be chosen.

from hdfpath import parse
import h5py as h5

with h5.File("<HDF5-File>") as f:
    # query for all groups/datasets of type "scan" with the num_points attribute being larger than 40_000_000
    expr = parse('$..*[?(@._type == "scan" & @._num_points > 40000000)]', metadata_attribute='attrs')
    val = [match.value for match in expr.find(f)]
    print(val)

The metadata attributes are accessible inside the query using the _ prefix. Additionally, the use of regular expressions to match the fields is available through the `regex()` function. For example `regex(\\\d+)` will only match groups/datasets that can be parsed into an integer number.

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Copyright 2021 - Felix Igelbrink

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