Object-oriented Fortran 2018 HDF5 interface

Straightforward single-file/module access to HDF5. Uses Fortran 2008 submodule for clean, templatable structure. This thin object-oriented modern Fortran library abstracts away the messy parts of HDF5 so that you can read/write various types/ranks of data with a single command.

Polymorphic API with read/write for types integer, real32, real64 with rank:

scalar (0-D)
1-D .. 7-D

as well as character (string) variables and attributes.

Tested on systems including

MacOS (via homebrew)
Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 (gfortran ≥ 5.4.1) with HDF5 1.8 and 1.10
Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Note: Currently, Cygwin does not have Fortran HDF5 libraries.

Build

Requirements:

modern Fortran 2008 compiler (such as gfortran ≥ 5.4.1, etc.)
HDF5 library (1.8 or 1.10)
- Mac: brew install gcc hdf5
- Linux: apt install gfortran libhdf5-dev
- Windows: at this time, Scoop and Chocolatey do not have HDF5, possibly due to difficulties with HDF5 and gfortran on Windows. Consider using Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Build this HDF5 OO Fortran interface with other Meson or CMake. The library libh5oo is built, link it into your program as usual.

Meson

meson build

ninja -C build

ninja test -C build

CMake

cd build
cmake ..

cmake --build .

ctest -V

If you need to specify a particular HDF5 library, use cmake -DHDF5_ROOT=/path/to/hdf5lib ..

Usage

All examples assume:

use hdf5_interface, only: hdf5_file
type(hdf5_file) :: h5f

gzip compression may be applied for rank ≥ 2 arrays by setting comp_lvl to a value betwen 1 and 9. Shuffle filter is automatically applied for better compression
string attributes may be applied to any variable at time of writing or later.
chunk_size option may be set for better compression

Create new HDF5 file, with variable "value1"

call h5f%initialize('test.h5',status='new',action='w')

call h5f%add('/value1', 123.)

call h5f%finalize()

Add variable "value1" to existing HDF5 file "test.h5"

call h5f%initialize('test.h5',status='old',action='rw')

call h5f%add('/value1', 123.)

call h5f%finalize()

Add gzip compressed 3-D array "value2" to existing HDF5 file "test.h5"

real :: val2(1000,1000,3) = 0.

call h5f%initialize('test.h5', comp_lvl=1)

call h5f%add('/value2', val2)

call h5f%finalize()

chunk_size may optionally be set in the %add() method.

Notes

The first character of the filename should be a character, NOT whitespace to avoid file open/creation errors.

Using compilers like PGI or Flang may require first compiling the HDF5 library yourself.

bulrush2008 / oo_hdf5_fortran