JuliaDataCubes / JuliaDataCubes/YAXArrays.jl

open_mfdataset fails when datacubes have different chunking

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Description

I am not sure what we can do about it, but if we try to open two datasets that have a slightly different chunking via open_mfdataset this fails with an Argument Error: Chunk sizes do not form a grid.

It would be nice, if we could try to circumvent this error by setting the chunks of the cubes all to the same chunking structure.

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Start at the open_mfdataset entry point and reproduce the failure with datasets that have different chunking structures. Trace how chunk sizes are validated, then make the datasets use a compatible common chunking so opening them succeeds without the grid error. Done means the reported case works and an appropriate regression test covers it.

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julia
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data
Issue type
Bug
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