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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesRFC-3 axis support and validation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds opt-in 0.9.dev1 axis support, but current TypeScript read paths can misidentify valid 0.9.dev1 stores and the writer may validate a different axis list than it serializes. This can break version-aware round trips or allow incorrect metadata, so the PR is not merge-ready until those issues are corrected. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py (1)
187-193: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
Axis.typeis commented as optional but has no default in either version's dataclass. BothAxisdataclasses declaretype: str | Nonewithout a default, so direct construction (Axis(name="x")) still requires passingtype=explicitly, contradicting the "type is optional" comment on each field. Internal call sites all passtypeexplicitly today, so this is not currently exploitable, but it undermines the documented RFC-3 contract for any future/external caller of the publicAxisAPI.
py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py#L187-L193: add= Nonedefault to thetype: str | Nonefield.py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py#L30-L36: add= Nonedefault to thetype: str | Nonefield.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py` around lines 187 - 193, Make the optional type field default to None in both Axis dataclasses: update Axis in py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py at lines 187-193 and Axis in py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py at lines 30-36. Preserve the existing field order and allow construction with only name, such as Axis(name="x").
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In `@py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py`:
- Around line 29-35: The test helper _write_v04 currently creates only an empty
array, so the test does not validate decoded data. Seed the created array with a
small known payload in both the zarr-python 2 and 3 branches, then update the
test to compare np.asarray(image.data) with that expected payload while
retaining the existing shape assertions.
- Around line 20-26: Update the _open_group fixture to pass zarr_format=2 when
calling zarr.open_group, preserving its existing cross-version store selection
and writable mode so the fixtures always create Zarr v2 hierarchies.
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py`:
- Around line 187-193: Make the optional type field default to None in both Axis
dataclasses: update Axis in py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py at lines 187-193
and Axis in py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py at lines 30-36. Preserve the
existing field order and allow construction with only name, such as
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210-220: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExercise the validated read path.
This call does not explicitly pass
validate=True, so it may only verify permissive deserialization. Add a validated read to ensure the relaxed schema also accepts an axis withouttype.Proposed fix
- result = from_ngff_zarr(store, version=version) + result = from_ngff_zarr(store, version=version, validate=True)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@py/test/test_unknown_axis_fields.py` around lines 210 - 220, Update the test around from_ngff_zarr to explicitly perform a validated read by passing validate=True, while preserving the existing assertions that an axis without type is accepted and its type becomes None.
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In `@py/test/test_unknown_axis_fields.py`:
- Around line 210-220: Update the test around from_ngff_zarr to explicitly
perform a validated read by passing validate=True, while preserving the existing
assertions that an axis without type is accepted and its type becomes None.
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py/test/test_structural_validation_parity.py (1)
75-85: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winAdd the unique-axis rule to the expected evaluation order.
validate_structuralnow runsvalidate_axis_names_uniqueafter spatial-axis ordering, but this list omitsSpecRule.AXIS_NAMES_UNIQUE. The orchestrator-order test will fail; insert it after the secondSpecRule.AXIS_ORDER.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@py/test/test_structural_validation_parity.py` around lines 75 - 85, Add SpecRule.AXIS_NAMES_UNIQUE to EXPECTED_EVALUATION_ORDER immediately after the second SpecRule.AXIS_ORDER entry, matching validate_structural’s validate_axis_names_unique execution order.py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py (1)
344-365: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAdd
Metadata_v10to the conversion type hints.
to_version()can return v10 forNgffVersion.V10DEV, andfrom_version()already acceptsMetadata_v10at runtime, but the public annotations still exclude it.
py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py: includeMetadata_v10into_version()andfrom_version().py/ngff_zarr/v05/zarr_metadata.py: includeMetadata_v10into_version()andfrom_version().py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py: includeMetadata_v10into_version()andfrom_version().🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py` around lines 344 - 365, Expand the public conversion type hints to include Metadata_v10 wherever these APIs can return or accept it: update to_version() and from_version() in py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py (lines 344-365), py/ngff_zarr/v05/zarr_metadata.py (lines 30-51), and py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py (lines 202-223). Keep the existing runtime conversion behavior unchanged.Source: Coding guidelines
ts/src/io/upgrade_ome_zarr_common.ts (1)
185-197: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftTS blocks in-place 0.4→0.5/0.6 upgrades that Python supports.
This branch rejects both Zarr v2↔v3 in-place directions, but the Python path allows 0.4→0.5/0.6 by rewriting array and group metadata while preserving chunk files. Either add the v2→v3 rewrite here or narrow the error message to this TS-only limitation.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@ts/src/io/upgrade_ome_zarr_common.ts` around lines 185 - 197, Update the cross-format branch in the upgrade flow around sourceZarrFormat and targetZarrFormat so 0.4→0.5/0.6 upgrades perform the supported metadata rewrite while preserving chunk files, rather than being rejected. Keep the error path for the unsupported reverse v3→v2 direction, and ensure its message accurately describes only that remaining limitation.
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py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py (1)
109-122: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert preserved axis types in both RFC-3 paths. The cases include custom types such as
diffraction, but the tests only compare dimension names and payloads; type loss or normalization would pass unnoticed.
py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py#L109-L122: compare the parsed metadata axis(name, type)pairs with the fixture axes.py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py#L125-L139: make the same assertion after the 1.0-DEV round trip, including an axis with omittedtype.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py` around lines 109 - 122, Update test_rfc3_read_preserves_axis_order in py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py lines 109-122 to also compare parsed axis (name, type) pairs against the fixture axes. Apply the same metadata assertion in the 1.0-DEV round-trip test at py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py lines 125-139, including correct handling of an omitted type.py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py (2)
209-229: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDocument the public conversion APIs.
to_version()andfrom_version()expose non-trivial conversion and loss semantics but have no docstrings.As per coding guidelines, “Include docstrings for all public Python functions and classes.”
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py` around lines 209 - 229, The public conversion methods Metadata.to_version and Metadata.from_version need docstrings. Add concise docstrings documenting their accepted versions/types, conversion behavior, and any loss semantics, including unsupported-version handling where applicable, while leaving the conversion logic unchanged.Source: Coding guidelines
23-25: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse absolute imports in the added Python code.
py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py#L23-L25: replace package-relative imports withngff_zarr...imports.py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py#L32-L47: use absolute imports for the v0.6 re-exports.py/ngff_zarr/from_ngff_zarr.py#L349-L350: import the v10 metadata model through its absolute package path.As per coding guidelines, “Use absolute imports and group imports by standard library/third-party/local in Python.”
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py` around lines 23 - 25, Replace the relative imports at py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py:23-25 with absolute ngff_zarr imports, and update the v0.6 re-export imports at py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py:32-47 to use absolute package paths. Also change the v10 metadata model import at py/ngff_zarr/from_ngff_zarr.py:349-350 to its absolute ngff_zarr path, while preserving standard-library, third-party, and local import grouping.Source: Coding guidelines
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/to_ngff_zarr.py`:
- Around line 441-531: Update _axis_views in py/ngff_zarr/to_ngff_zarr.py (lines
441-531) to prefer coordinateSystems whenever present, ensuring every system’s
axes is gated instead of letting Metadata_v10.axes hide secondary systems. In
ts/src/io/to_ngff_zarr_ozx_common.ts (lines 19-88), update gateAxisModel and
processAxes to iterate coordinateSystems when available, so all systems are
validated and transformed before buildV06MultiscalesEntry writes them.
In `@py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py`:
- Around line 354-360: Update the legacy flat-axis branch in the metadata
conversion flow around the coordinateSystems normalization and v0.6 reader
delegation: when converting an entry with “axes” but no “coordinateSystems”,
also normalize its legacy scale/translation transforms so the first transform
references the synthesized “intrinsic” output coordinate system. Prefer the
existing v0.5 conversion path if it provides this behavior; otherwise synthesize
the intrinsic transform sequence before invoking the v0.6 reader, while
preserving the current axis filtering.
- Around line 195-207: Update the axes and dimension_names properties to use the
coordinate system returned by intrinsic_coordinate_system instead of
coordinateSystems[0]. Ensure both metadata dimensions and structural validation
resolve the actual intrinsic axes regardless of coordinate-system ordering.
In `@ts/src/io/from_ngff_zarr.ts`:
- Line 24: The Node reader in ts/src/io/from_ngff_zarr.ts at line 24 and the
browser reader in ts/src/io/from_ngff_zarr-browser.ts at line 22 must support
1.0-DEV before exposing that version in their option types. Update both readers’
version dispatch to route detected 1.0-DEV metadata through the
coordinate-system-compatible RFC-3 parser, before the existing v0.4/v0.5
flat-metadata path and browser v0.6 delegation, so 1.0-DEV stores are parsed
using their coordinate-system layout.
In `@ts/src/types/zarr_metadata.ts`:
- Around line 24-30: The public Axis interface should support RFC-3 metadata by
widening name from SupportedDims to string and making type optional as type?:
string. Update only Axis in the zarr metadata types; retain version-specific
validation and schema constraints elsewhere.
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py`:
- Around line 344-365: Expand the public conversion type hints to include
Metadata_v10 wherever these APIs can return or accept it: update to_version()
and from_version() in py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py (lines 344-365),
py/ngff_zarr/v05/zarr_metadata.py (lines 30-51), and
py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py (lines 202-223). Keep the existing runtime
conversion behavior unchanged.
In `@py/test/test_structural_validation_parity.py`:
- Around line 75-85: Add SpecRule.AXIS_NAMES_UNIQUE to EXPECTED_EVALUATION_ORDER
immediately after the second SpecRule.AXIS_ORDER entry, matching
validate_structural’s validate_axis_names_unique execution order.
In `@ts/src/io/upgrade_ome_zarr_common.ts`:
- Around line 185-197: Update the cross-format branch in the upgrade flow around
sourceZarrFormat and targetZarrFormat so 0.4→0.5/0.6 upgrades perform the
supported metadata rewrite while preserving chunk files, rather than being
rejected. Keep the error path for the unsupported reverse v3→v2 direction, and
ensure its message accurately describes only that remaining limitation.
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py`:
- Around line 209-229: The public conversion methods Metadata.to_version and
Metadata.from_version need docstrings. Add concise docstrings documenting their
accepted versions/types, conversion behavior, and any loss semantics, including
unsupported-version handling where applicable, while leaving the conversion
logic unchanged.
- Around line 23-25: Replace the relative imports at
py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py:23-25 with absolute ngff_zarr imports, and
update the v0.6 re-export imports at py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py:32-47 to
use absolute package paths. Also change the v10 metadata model import at
py/ngff_zarr/from_ngff_zarr.py:349-350 to its absolute ngff_zarr path, while
preserving standard-library, third-party, and local import grouping.
In `@py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py`:
- Around line 109-122: Update test_rfc3_read_preserves_axis_order in
py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py lines 109-122 to also compare parsed axis (name, type)
pairs against the fixture axes. Apply the same metadata assertion in the 1.0-DEV
round-trip test at py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py lines 125-139, including correct
handling of an omitted type.
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py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py (1)
357-360: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse absolute imports for the new v10 model.
Both added imports are relative. Use the package-root import form for consistency with the repository’s Python import guideline.
Proposed fix
- from ..v10.zarr_metadata import Metadata as Metadata_v10 + from ngff_zarr.v10.zarr_metadata import Metadata as Metadata_v10 - from ..v10.zarr_metadata import Metadata as Metadata_v10 + from ngff_zarr.v10.zarr_metadata import Metadata as Metadata_v10As per coding guidelines, Python files must use absolute imports and group imports by standard library/third-party/local.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py` around lines 357 - 360, Update the v10 model imports in the version-conversion logic, including both imports around Metadata_v10 and the related symbol near the additional referenced lines, to use the package-root absolute import form. Preserve the existing lazy import behavior and group the import consistently with the repository’s standard-library/third-party/local ordering.Source: Coding guidelines
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py`:
- Around line 357-360: Update the type annotations for both to_version() and
from_version() in Metadata to include Metadata_v10 in their respective unions,
while preserving the existing NgffVersion.V10DEV conversion behavior and
avoiding runtime import issues by following the module’s established type-hint
import pattern.
- Around line 189-192: Update the Axis dataclass so its type field defaults to
None, allowing Axis(name="x") construction while preserving explicit axis-type
values.
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py`:
- Around line 357-360: Update the v10 model imports in the version-conversion
logic, including both imports around Metadata_v10 and the related symbol near
the additional referenced lines, to use the package-root absolute import form.
Preserve the existing lazy import behavior and group the import consistently
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Pull request overview
Adds opt-in support for OME-Zarr RFC-3 (free-form axis count/names/types/order) via a new 1.0-DEV version in both the Python (py/) and TypeScript (ts/) implementations, while keeping existing released versions’ axis constraints intact.
Changes:
- Introduces
1.0-DEVas a supported (non-default) target version and routes it through the v0.6/RFC-5 coordinate-system layout. - Adds “write gating” so pre-
1.0-DEVtargets refuse RFC-3 axis models (with a warning-only exception for axis type-class ordering). - Makes axis
typeoptional on read (aligning with v0.4 schema permissiveness) and adds anaxis-names-uniquestructural validation rule + parity updates.
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| ts/test/write_gate_test.ts | Adds TS tests for the RFC-3 write gate behavior and 1.0-DEV routing. |
| ts/test/structural_validation_test.ts | Adds tests for axis-name uniqueness and 1.0-DEV axis-rule inertness. |
| ts/test/structural_validation_parity_test.ts | Updates canonical rule ID list for parity with Python. |
| ts/src/utils/structural_validation.ts | Makes axis rules version-aware, adds axis-names-unique, and updates structural orchestrator. |
| ts/src/utils/from_zarr_attrs.ts | Fixes optional axis type parsing (avoid "undefined" string). |
| ts/src/types/zarr_metadata.ts | Updates Axis typing to allow type to be omitted. |
| ts/src/types/supported_versions.ts | Adds 1.0-DEV to the supported-version set and introduces RFC-3 allowance predicate. |
| ts/src/io/upgrade_ome_zarr_common.ts | Extends upgrade API option types to include 1.0-DEV. |
| ts/src/io/to_ngff_zarr.ts | Extends writer option types to include 1.0-DEV. |
| ts/src/io/to_ngff_zarr-browser.ts | Extends browser writer option types to include 1.0-DEV. |
| ts/src/io/to_ngff_zarr_ozx_common.ts | Implements the TS-side RFC-3 write gate and writes ome.version="1.0-DEV". |
| ts/src/io/from_ngff_zarr.ts | Routes 1.0-DEV reads through the v0.6 reader path. |
| ts/src/io/from_ngff_zarr-browser.ts | Extends browser reader option types to include 1.0-DEV. |
| py/test/test_v10_metadata.py | Adds Python tests covering 1.0-DEV read shapes, conversions, and schema reporting. |
| py/test/test_unknown_axis_fields.py | Updates behavior to accept missing axis type on read. |
| py/test/test_structural_validation.py | Adds tests for the new axis-name uniqueness rule. |
| py/test/test_structural_validation_parity.py | Updates canonical rule ID list for parity with TypeScript. |
| py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py | Adds Python end-to-end RFC-3 read + round-trip tests and write refusal below 1.0-DEV. |
| py/ngff_zarr/validate.py | Makes schema-loading explicitly fail for versions without published JSON Schema (1.0-DEV). |
| py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py | Introduces Python v1.0-DEV metadata dataclasses and read normalization logic. |
| py/ngff_zarr/v10/init.py | Adds v10 module package marker. |
| py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py | Adds conversion paths between v0.6 and v1.0-DEV metadata. |
| py/ngff_zarr/v05/zarr_metadata.py | Adds conversion paths between v0.5 and v1.0-DEV metadata. |
| py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py | Makes axis type optional on read; adds conversion to/from v1.0-DEV. |
| py/ngff_zarr/upgrade_ome_zarr.py | Extends upgrade targets to include 1.0-DEV and applies the write gate before destructive rewrites. |
| py/ngff_zarr/to_ngff_zarr.py | Adds the Python-side RFC-3 write gate across coordinate systems and integrates it into writing. |
| py/ngff_zarr/structural_validation.py | Adds RFC-3 allowance predicate + axis-name uniqueness rule; makes axis rules version-aware. |
| py/ngff_zarr/multiscales.py | Extends multiscales metadata union type to include v1.0-DEV. |
| py/ngff_zarr/from_ngff_zarr.py | Adds 1.0-DEV read branch and preserves v1.0-DEV model on normalization. |
| py/ngff_zarr/_supported_versions.py | Adds NgffVersion.V10DEV="1.0-DEV" and includes it in supported versions. |
| py/ngff_zarr/init.py | Re-exports NgffVersion. |
| docs/validation/rule-reference.md | Documents the new axis-names-unique rule and updated evaluation ordering. |
| docs/validation/parity.md | Updates canonical rule ordering and identifiers to include axis-name uniqueness. |
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py/ngff_zarr/v10/zarr_metadata.py:211
axes/dimension_namesare documented as returning the intrinsic coordinate system’s axes, but they currently readcoordinateSystems[0]. If the intrinsic system is not the first entry (or the list is reordered on read), these properties will silently return the wrong axes and break structural validation and downstream dimension logic.
Derive both from intrinsic_coordinate_system instead of assuming index 0.
return self.coordinateSystems[0].axes
@property
def dimension_names(self) -> tuple:
return tuple([ax.name for ax in self.coordinateSystems[0].axes])
ts/src/utils/structural_validation.ts:376
- This error message also hard-codes “OME-Zarr v0.4”, but the “2–3 space axes” requirement is enforced for v0.4, v0.5, and v0.6 (and only lifted at 1.0-DEV). The wording should not imply it’s v0.4-specific.
throw new ValidationError(
SpecRule.AxisOrder,
`OME-Zarr v0.4 requires 2 or 3 'space' axes; found ${count}.`,
"multiscales[0].axes",
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py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py (1)
190-193: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winGive
Axis.typea default ofNone.The read path now supplies
type=Nonethrough_filter_axis_dict. Direct construction still requires it, soAxis(name="x")raisesTypeError. The declared type already allowsNone.🛠️ Proposed fix
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86-97: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winThe duplicate-name test passes for the wrong reason below 0.9.dev1.
[space("y"), space("y"), space("x")]also violates the spatial-axis suffix rule. For"0.4","0.5"and"0.6",validateSpatialAxisOrderruns beforevalidateAxisNamesUniqueand throws first, so the generic axis-model error is raised. Only the"0.9.dev1"iteration reaches the unique-name rule.Use axes that satisfy the other four rules, and assert the unique-name message.
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- const axes = [space("y"), space("y"), space("x")]; + // (time "x", space "y", space "x") satisfies count, type, order and the + // (y, x) spatial suffix, so only the unique-name rule can fire. + const axes: Axis[] = [ + { name: "x", type: "time", unit: undefined }, + space("y"), + space("x"), + ]; for (const version of [...PRE_RFC3, "0.9.dev1"] as TargetVersion[]) { const error = assertThrows( () => buildRootAttributes(buildMetadata(axes), version), Error, ); assertStringIncludes(error.message, "Cannot write OME-Zarr"); + assertStringIncludes(error.message, "is repeated"); }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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38-42: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd an RFC-3 entry to the "RFCs Supported" list.
This bullet documents 0.9.dev1 and RFC-3. The "RFCs Supported" section below still lists only RFC-1, RFC-2, RFC-4, RFC-5, and RFC-9. Readers who scan that section will not find RFC-3.
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- **RFC-2**: Support for Zarr v3, including[Sharded Zarr](https://zarr.dev/zeps/accepted/ZEP0002.html) stores, allowing for scalable data management. +- **RFC-3**: Unrestricted axes (any count, names, types and order), available + at the opt-in development version `0.9.dev1`. - **RFC-4**: [Anatomical orientation support](./rfc4.md), allowing images to🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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15-15: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse an absolute import for
Metadata_v09.Replace
from .v09.zarr_metadatawithfrom ngff_zarr.v09.zarr_metadata.As per coding guidelines, “Python code must use 88-character lines, absolute imports grouped by standard library, third-party, and local imports.”
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ts/src/io/to_ngff_zarr.ts (1)
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0.9.dev1inToOmeZarrOptions.version.The union now accepts
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Axis.typealready uses the openAxisTypealias. Add reader tests for"my_custom_type"in the v0.4 and v0.6 paths.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/python.md`:
- Around line 547-549: The documentation claim around the standard write
pipeline should qualify version transitions by stating they work only when the
target version can represent the source metadata, including axis-model
constraints; otherwise the writer rejects the conversion. Preserve the note that
supported transitions do not erase the source store.
In `@docs/typescript.md`:
- Line 812: Update the “Write-to-new-store” paragraph to reflect the newly
supported version “0.9.dev1”, either by adding it to the listed transitions or
explicitly documenting the supported transition combinations; keep the version
signature unchanged.
In `@py/test/test_rfc3_axes.py`:
- Around line 20-24: Update the needs_zarr_v3 skip condition and its reason to
use the established Zarr compatibility threshold of 3.0.0b1 instead of 3.0.0b2.
In `@README.md`:
- Line 70: Update the Python support bullets near the existing v0.6 read/write
claims to reflect the newly added 0.9.dev1 support, or explicitly state that
0.9.dev1 is TypeScript-only; keep the README’s language consistent with the
actual Python implementation.
In `@ts/src/io/from_ngff_zarr.ts`:
- Around line 144-149: Update the detectedVersion branch around fromZarrAttrsV06
so NgffVersion.V09dev1 stores preserve metadata.version as "0.9.dev1" instead of
the parser’s default "0.6"; pass the detected version through or overwrite the
parsed metadata version, and add a read assertion covering a 0.9.dev1 store.
In `@ts/src/io/to_ngff_zarr_ozx_common.ts`:
- Around line 41-52: Update axisViews so the first coordinate-system view uses
metadata.axes, matching the writer’s serialized intrinsic axes, while later
views use each declared coordinate system’s axes. Preserve the existing fallback
location and behavior when no coordinate systems are present.
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py`:
- Around line 190-193: Update the Axis dataclass so its type field defaults to
None, allowing Axis(name="x") while preserving the existing optional type
annotation and read-path behavior.
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In `@docs/spec_features.md`:
- Around line 38-42: Add an RFC-3 entry to the “RFCs Supported” list in
docs/spec_features.md, referencing the documented OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1 support and
its RFC-3 axis behavior; leave the existing RFC entries unchanged.
In `@py/ngff_zarr/multiscales.py`:
- Line 15: Update the Metadata_v09 import to use the absolute
ngff_zarr.v09.zarr_metadata path, while preserving the existing import grouping
and 88-character formatting conventions.
In `@ts/src/io/to_ngff_zarr.ts`:
- Line 26: Update the JSDoc for ToOmeZarrOptions.version to document the
existing "0.9.dev1" option as writing opt-in RFC-3 metadata, while preserving
the documentation for v0.4–v0.6 and the .ozx restriction.
In `@ts/src/utils/from_zarr_attrs.ts`:
- Around line 260-266: Add reader test coverage for a custom axis type value of
"my_custom_type" in both the v0.4 and v0.6 parsing paths, verifying that
Axis.type preserves the custom string.
In `@ts/test/write_gate_test.ts`:
- Around line 86-97: Update the repeated-axis test in the Deno test so its axes
satisfy spatial-axis ordering and the other axis-model rules while still
containing duplicate names; then assert the specific unique-axis-name error
message rather than the generic “Cannot write OME-Zarr” text for every target
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I think this was fixed in #623 We should strongly prefer write with order (t, c, z, y, x). This should be the default. And we should warn if anything else is used. |
Two corrections to axis metadata handling, both additive. `type` is optional. The v0.4 schema accepts an axis object that declares only `name` (`$defs.axes.items.oneOf` has a branch requiring `name` alone), but the reader raised `ValueError: Axis dictionary is missing required field 'type'`, so a schema-legal store could not be read. `_filter_axis_dict` now requires only `name` and defaults a missing `type` to `None`, and `Axis.type` widens from `AxesType` to `AxesType | None`. The TypeScript reader stops turning an absent type into the literal string "undefined", `Axis.type` becomes `AxesType | undefined`, and `validateAxisOrder` skips an axis with no type, mirroring the Python port's dict `.get()`. Axis names must be unique. RFC-3 states axis names MUST NOT repeat, and v0.6 already requires uniqueness within a coordinate system; the v0.4 schema's `uniqueItems` compares whole objects, so two axes sharing a name but differing in `unit` pass. `SpecRule.AXIS_NAMES_UNIQUE` and `validate_axis_names_unique` are added after `axis-order` in both ports, in the enum, the orchestrator, and the byte-pinned parity manifests. No existing rule is removed or renamed.
OME-Zarr 1.0-DEV is 0.6 plus RFC-3: an image may declare any number of axes, with any names, any type strings, and in any order. `NgffVersion.V10DEV` joins the enum and `SUPPORTED_VERSIONS`; `LATEST` stays `0.6.dev4`, so 1.0-DEV is opt-in and no caller's default target changes. `v10/zarr_metadata.py` defines only `Axis`, `CoordinateSystem` and `Metadata`, re-exporting every transform from v0.6. Those must be the same classes, not copies: `v06.Metadata._to_v05` dispatches on `isinstance(t, Scale)` and `isinstance(t, TransformSequence)`, so copies would fall through every branch and emit default transforms instead. `Metadata` does not subclass its v0.6 counterpart either, because `v05.Metadata.from_version` dispatches on `isinstance(metadata, Metadata_v06)` and would route a subclass through the v0.5 downgrade path. `_from_v06` re-instantiates every axis. `v06._from_v05` assigns the v0.5 axis list straight into a `CoordinateSystem`, so a v0.6 `Metadata` reached from a 0.4/0.5 store holds v0.4 `Axis` objects in the same list object; aliasing them would share mutable state with the source, drop fields under `dataclasses.asdict`, and break class-exact dataclass equality. `discrete` is read with `getattr` for the same reason. Reading is wired end to end: `from_ngff_zarr` dispatches 1.0-DEV to the v10 reader before the 0.6 branch, and the closing normalization keeps a 1.0-DEV store at 1.0-DEV instead of downgrading it to 0.6 and discarding its RFC-3 axis model. Every `to_version`/`from_version` chain gains a 1.0-DEV arm, and both the writer and `upgrade_ome_zarr` accept the new target. The CLI keeps its existing version choices. No 1.0-DEV JSON Schema is published, so no `spec/1.0-DEV` tree is bundled; `load_schema` reports that explicitly and `validate=True` on a 1.0-DEV read says the same rather than validating nothing.
The axis restrictions become version-conditional and the writer enforces them. `is_rfc3_axis_model_allowed` decides, and only `1.0-DEV` lifts the historical limits: the bundled 0.4, 0.5 *and* 0.6 axes schemas all cap the axis count at 5 and require 2-3 `space` axes, so 0.6 is RFC-5, not RFC-3. Each axis rule gains an optional `version` argument that defaults to today's behaviour, so every existing single-argument call is unchanged and the rule set, its identifiers and the fail-fast order are untouched -- the byte-pinned py/ts parity manifests do not move. `_gate_axis_model` runs those same rules against the *target* version in `_prepare_metadata`, after `to_version` and before the store is created, so a refused write never erases the destination. Reusing the validators rather than a private predicate is the point: the writer and `validate_structural` cannot disagree about what a version permits. The two `upgrade_ome_zarr` paths that bypass `_prepare_metadata` call it directly, the in-place one before `_rewrite_v2_group_to_v3` deletes the v2 sidecars. `validate_spatial_axis_order` gains the missing lower bound: every bundled axes schema states `minContains: 2`, but only the upper bound was enforced, so a metadata with fewer than two `space` axes passed validation and would have passed the gate. Type-class ordering is reported, not enforced. ngff-zarr represents vector and RGB data with the channel axis last -- itkwasm bin-shrink vector mode, dask-image, and the TIFF `S` sample axis all produce e.g. `(z, y, x, c)` -- which violates the spec's time -> channel -> space ordering. Raising would break those conversions, including RGB TIFF through the CLI, so the deviation is surfaced as a warning and the store is still written. The underlying non-conformance is pre-existing and worth fixing separately.
`NgffVersion.V10DEV` and `isRfc3AxisModelAllowed` mirror the Python members, and the eight `"0.4" | "0.5" | "0.6"` literal unions across the readers, writers and the upgrade path gain the new member -- without them 1.0-DEV is rejected at compile time before any runtime code sees it. `LATEST` stays `0.6.dev4`, as in Python. The four axis rules gain the same optional `version` argument and the same early return, so an existing single-argument call keeps today's behaviour and the rule identifiers, their evaluation order and both byte-pinned parity manifests are untouched. `validateAxisNamesUnique` takes the argument but is never inert: RFC-3 keeps unique axis names. `validateSpatialAxisOrder` gains the same missing `minContains: 2` lower bound as the Python port. `gateAxisModel` runs those rules against the target version at the top of `buildRootAttributes`, the single function behind all three TypeScript writers, and `buildRootAttributes` learns to tag a 1.0-DEV store -- unlike `"0.6"` that string is already the on-disk value, so it needs no shim. Type-class ordering warns rather than throws, matching the Python gate and for the same reason: vector and RGB data is represented with the channel axis last.
- v10 Metadata: resolve the intrinsic coordinate system with a clear ValueError instead of StopIteration, and route `axes` and `dimension_names` through it instead of assuming index zero. - ts: widen `Axis.name`/`Axis.type` to the RFC-3 free-form strings via `AxisName`/`AxisType`, dropping the `as never` casts; type the axis rules as `Pick<Metadata, "axes">` so the write gate calls them unchanged. - py,ts: the axis-rule messages no longer claim v0.4 for constraints that apply to 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 alike. - ts: attach the misplaced `gateAxisModel` JSDoc to its function.
The bundled axes schemas state minContains: 2 for 'space'; the TS port enforced the lower bound but the Python validator only enforced the upper bound.
The development version that carries RFC-3 is 0.9.dev1. ome/ngff-spec#190 titles the specification 0.9.dev1 and its _version.schema enum holds that value; bioformats2raw#330 writes the same string. Renames the package py/ngff_zarr/v10 to v09 and its test module, the NgffVersion member V10DEV to V09dev1, and the version string in both ports. LATEST stays 0.6.dev4 and the version stays opt-in.
…is rule The v0.6 axes.schema is a oneOf: either 2 or 3 space axes, or two or more array axes. coordinate_systems.schema applies it to every coordinate system, and the write gate walks all of them. An RFC-5 array coordinate system takes the second arm and declares no space axis, so the space-axis floor must not fire on it. The floor is skipped when the axis list takes the array arm. Scoped to v0.6: the v0.4 and v0.5 schemas have no such arm and require 2 or 3 space axes unconditionally. is_v06_version mirrors the TypeScript isV06Version. It tests isinstance rather than str(): NgffVersion is a stdlib StrEnum from 3.11 and a str, Enum backport below it, and only the former renders as its value under str(), so a str()-based check returns False for enum members on the 3.10 zarr-python 2 matrix. validate_axis_names_unique states RFC-3 rule 5. No released schema carries it, so below 0.9.dev1 it is a strictness choice rather than a spec MUST of those versions.
…sion set The write gate is a second dispatcher, not the structural pass. It runs the five axis rules only, applies them to every coordinate system where the structural pass reads one flat axis list, and reports the axis class-ordering arm as a warning so channel-last vector and RGB stores still write. It runs after the target-version conversion, so it cannot refuse an axis model the downgrade has discarded. The axis-order warning names its coordinate system. The four axis rules take a version and are inert for the versions that adopt RFC-3, which both ports must agree on. CANONICAL_RFC3_VERSIONS pins that set as a literal shared by the two parity suites, asserted through the public orchestrator. axis-names-unique is absent from it: RFC-3 rule 5 applies at every version. rule-reference records the space-axis floor, the array arm, RFC-3 rule 5 as the source of axis-names-unique, and the write gate as a fourth dispatcher. The upgrade docstrings name 0.9.dev1 among the targets they accept.
upgrade_ome_zarr accepts 0.9.dev1, so the CLI in front of it offers the same set. OME publishes no JSON Schema for the version, so --validate cannot check a store at that version, which the help text states.
The README, the feature list, and the Python and TypeScript guides name the versions the library reads and writes, and the TypeScript guide reproduces the fromNgffZarr, toNgffZarr and upgradeOmeZarr option signatures. All of them now include 0.9.dev1, with its two caveats: it is opt-in, and schema validation is unavailable while OME publishes no JSON Schema for it.
…test to_version and from_version in v04, v05 and v06 each convert to and from Metadata_v09, so their unions name it. fromZarrAttrsV04 and fromZarrAttrsV06 keep the parsed axis name as a string: RFC-3 permits any name, which the closed SupportedDims union cannot express. test_rfc3_read_six_dimensional_data_values asserted ndim, shape and payload on a six-axis store, all of which test_rfc3_read_preserves_axis_order[ramp_6d] already covers.
fromZarrAttrsV06 records `0.6`, which is right for the whole 0.6 family but not for a 0.9.dev1 store: that string is the on-disk version, and callers read `metadata.version` to tell the two models apart. buildV06MultiscalesEntry serializes the first coordinate system from `metadata.axes` and the later ones verbatim, and MetadataInterface does not tie `axes` to `coordinateSystems[0].axes`. The gate reads the list the writer serializes, so every axis model that reaches disk is checked. The README lists 0.9.dev1 among the versions the Python side reads and writes, and the two upgrade guides state that a transition needs the target version to be able to express the axis model: an RFC-3 model only converts upward.
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@thewtex Thanks, you're right. This PR was based on main from before #623, so it did not carry that normalization. Rebased onto main. On the axis order: I removed the warning and made it raise like the other MUSTs, so the writer now refuses exactly what One thing that surfaced: #623 is Python only. The TypeScript port has no canonical-order normalization, and no lazy transpose to build one on, so a non-canonical model that Python normalizes is refused by the TS writer below |
…r MUST Axis order is a spec MUST and validate_structural rejects it, so the writer rejects it too. The gate refuses exactly what the validator refuses. fideus-labs#623 normalizes generated axes to (t, c, z, y, x), so the Python pipeline produces a canonical order and a model that reaches the gate out of order comes from the caller. That normalization is Python only. Two TypeScript downsampling tests feed `(z, y, c, x)` and `(t, z, y, c, x)` to check that the channel axis survives in place, and write at 0.9.dev1, whose axis model allows the order they assert.
`(z, y, x, c)` satisfies every other axis rule: 4 axes, one channel, and the space names are the `(z, y, x)` suffix. Only the class ordering is wrong, so it reaches validate_axis_order and nothing else, and each port asserts the writer refuses it below 0.9.dev1 and accepts it at 0.9.dev1.
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The canonical rule table at the top of structural_validation.py asks maintainers to keep it in sync with SpecRule, and it lost axis-names-unique when that rule was added. Nothing detected it: neither the comment table nor docs/validation/rule-reference.md was checked against the manifest the parity test already locks. Two assertions now compare both tables to CANONICAL_SPEC_RULE_IDS, so a rule added to SpecRule without its table entries fails the suite.
RFC-3 widens `name` and `type` to arbitrary strings, but the spec-defined vocabulary is still the useful default: `AxisName` and `AxesType` are unions that keep v0.4's `SupportedDims` and v0.6's type literals alongside the free-form string, so editors complete the conventional names while an arbitrary axis stays legal. Mirrors the TypeScript port's `AxisType = AxesType | (string & Record<never, never>)`. The 0.9.dev1 axis model expands the supported count, names, types and order rather than removing a notion of validity, and the feature lists now say so. The metadata tests call `to_ome_zarr` and `from_ome_zarr`, the canonical entry points, instead of their backwards-compatible aliases.
`validateStructural` takes the OME-Zarr version, and the axis rules are inert
for the versions that adopt the RFC-3 axis model. The readers called it without
one, so `isRfc3AxisModelAllowed(undefined)` was false and every store was held
to the v0.4 axis caps.
Two documents this port can itself produce were refused on the way back in
under `validate: true`: a 0.9.dev1 store with six axes ("v0.4, v0.5 and v0.6
require between 2 and 5 axes", quoting versions the store does not claim), and
a v0.6 store whose only coordinate system takes the `array` arm of the axes
schema, which carries no `space` axis.
The v0.6 reader serves both 0.6 and 0.9.dev1, so it reads the group-level
`version` to tell them apart. The version it reports for the 0.6 family stays
`0.6`.
The write gate covered a different set of coordinate systems in each port, so the same metadata was written by one and refused by the other. Python gates after `Metadata.to_version`, which for a v0.4/v0.5 target leaves the single flat `axes` the writer serializes. TypeScript gated the version-agnostic metadata, so a coordinate system the downgrade discards blocked the write and the refusal named `multiscales[0].coordinateSystems[1].axes`, a node absent from the v0.4 document. `axisViews` now takes the target version and walks the systems only where they are serialized. Three divergences in the refusal text are gone. `ValidationError` prefixes its `message` with `Spec rule [...] violated: `, which the gate then prefixed again; it now carries `detail`, the bare text, matching Python's `exc.message`. Axes rendered through `JSON.stringify`, giving `type="space"` against Python's `type='space'` and `type=undefined` against `type=None`; both ports now render Python `repr`. `formatNameList` always single-quoted, which malforms a name containing an apostrophe, so it delegates to the same helper. The two messages are asserted byte-for-byte against a literal pinned in both suites. Reading an RFC-3 dataset also asserts axis types, which `dims` cannot carry: the EBSD fixture exists to exercise a custom `type` string, and a regression that coerced or dropped it left every assertion intact.
The rule runs fifth in both orchestrators, but neither parity suite proved it: `EXPECTED_EVALUATION_ORDER` had no entry for it, and moving the call to the front of either orchestrator left both suites green. The cascade now runs eleven stages, with stages 1 to 4 carrying a repeated `z` behind the rule they target and stage 5 isolating it, so moving the call in either direction fails. Widening `Axis.name` to `AxisName` removed the reason the TypeScript fixtures substituted `SupportedDims` members for the Python free-form names; they now use the same names, leaving the default-level check as the one adaptation. `is_v06_version` is pinned by a `str` subclass that renders as the backport's `str()` does, so the assertion bites on every interpreter rather than only on the 3.10 job where the backport is in play. The validation reference records the eleven-step cascade, the version argument both orchestrators take, and the fact that a v0.6 `array` coordinate system is exempt from the two-space-axis floor but not from the three-axis cap or the suffix check.
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Adds RFC-3 support (expanded axis count, names, types and order), enabled only
for OME-Zarr 0.9.dev1. Versions 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 keep their axis limits,
since their schemas cap axes at 5 and require 2 or 3
spaceaxes.0.9.dev1is the version string proposed in ome/ngff-spec#190,an open WIP that describes it as 0.6rc1 plus RFC-3, RFC-4 and probably
#87; the draft currently carries
RFC-3 only. Glencoe Software writes the same string in
bioformats2raw#330.
RFC-4 needs no work here:
v09re-exports the v0.6 model except forAxis,CoordinateSystemandMetadata, which it widens, so anatomical orientationalready round-trips at that version.
How it works
NgffImageandMetadatacarry no axis restriction.express.
the version the store declares.
The gate sees exactly what the target version writes. A v0.4/v0.5 target
serializes one flat
axesand drops the coordinate systems, so a system thedowngrade discards is not gated: Python reaches that set by gating after
Metadata.to_version, TypeScript by checking the target version inaxisViews.Both refusal messages are byte-identical and pinned as the same literal in both
suites.
0.9.dev1is opt-in.LATESTstays0.6.dev4, so nothing changes for existingcallers. OME publishes no 0.9.dev1 JSON Schema yet, so none is bundled and
validate=Truesays so rather than failing obscurely.ngff-zarr upgrade --to 0.9.dev1is accepted alongside the library API.One bug fixed
An axis with no
typeis rejected on read, although the 0.4 schema allows it.Four things to flag
Writing now applies the axis rules. The writer applied none before this PR,
so a 6-axis model serialized happily at 0.5. That is the point of the gate, but
it is a behaviour change for anyone deliberately writing such stores, and the
only way to keep writing them is
version="0.9.dev1".The space-axis floor is new below 0.9.dev1. Only the ceiling of 3
spaceaxes was enforced; the 0.4 schema also states
minContains: 2, and the upstreamconformance corpus files
one_space_axesunderinvalid/.validate_structuraland the writer now reject a single
spaceaxis at 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6. The v0.6axesschema is aoneOf, so an RFC-5arraycoordinate system, which carriesno
spaceaxis, is exempt from that floor (the 3-axis cap and the(z, y, x)suffix check still apply).
A non-canonical axis class order is refused. Axis order is a spec MUST and
validate_structuralrejects it, so the writer rejects it too and the twofinally agree. #623 normalizes generated axes to
(t, c, z, y, x), so thePython pipeline produces a canonical order and a model that reaches the gate out
of order comes from the caller.
That normalization is Python only: the TypeScript port has no equivalent, and no
lazy transpose to build one on, so a model Python normalizes is refused by the
TypeScript writer below 0.9.dev1. Worth its own issue.
The ingestion path does not accept an RFC-3 axis model yet.
to_ngff_imagecaps
dimsat the{c, x, y, z, t}vocabulary and 5 axes, andto_multiscalesraises on any other name, so an RFC-3 model enters the library through
from_ome_zarror a hand-builtMetadatarather than through the arrayingestion helpers. Also worth its own issue.
On
axis-names-uniqueThe new rule states RFC-3 rule 5, "axis names MUST NOT be repeated within a
dataset". No released schema carries it: 0.4 and 0.5 say nothing, and 0.6 has
only a non-normative
description. Applying it below 0.9.dev1 is therefore astrictness choice rather than a spec MUST of those versions, and the rule
reference says so. The case-insensitivity half of rule 5 is a SHOULD and is not
enforced.
The rule's position in the fail-fast cascade is locked in both ports: the shared
EXPECTED_EVALUATION_ORDERnow runs eleven stages withaxis-names-uniqueatposition 5, and moving the call in either direction fails the parity suite.
Tests
Python 975 passed on 3.14 with zarr-python 3, 679 passed on 3.10 with
zarr-python 2, and 572 passed in TypeScript. Each commit is green on the axis,
parity, RFC-3 and CLI suites in both languages.
The 3.10 environment also reports 30 failures in
test_itk_transform_resample_bounding_box.py, allImportError: cannot import name 'resample_bounding_box' from 'itkwasm_downsample'. That file and the ITK code paths are untouched here.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
0.9.dev1, including reading, writing, conversion, and upgrades.Bug Fixes
Documentation