Investigate iris plugin support
- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
# ✨ Feature Request
Iris 3.5 added support for [plugins](https://scitools-iris.readthedocs.io/en/stable/community/plugins.html).
This may be a way to improve the customised load and saving behaviour ANTS adds to iris including at least:
- Loading namelists with f90nml
- Loading raster data with GDAL
- Adding history to saving
- Adding XIOS workarounds to saving
- Adding UKCA metadata to saving
It may also provide a better mechanism for adding the [ANTS coordinate reference system aliases](https://github.com/MetOffice/ANTS/blob/06fdecaeb3850d06cb3f2e50c6d12cae2040843a/lib/ants/coord_systems.py#L184) to iris.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the Iris 3.5 plugin documentation linked in the issue, then inspect the ANTS coordinate-system aliases in lib/ants/coord_systems.py. Compare the listed custom loading and saving behaviors with the plugin mechanism. Done means documenting whether plugins can support these behaviors and identifying the changes required.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100