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Since v0.6 the axes live in coordinateSystems[0].axes rather than in a flat
axes key on the multiscales entry. Three call sites still looked only for the
flat key, each a copy of the v0.4 reader, so on a v0.6 document:

  • the reader's RFC-4 hook found no axes and skipped the orientation checks in
    silence, letting through an orientation that v0.4 and v0.5 reject;
  • ngff-zarr conformance answered input-not-ome-zarr with an empty axis map
    for every input, valid or not.

_raw_axes now answers "where are the axes" once, and the three sites call it.
Against the five RFC-4 fixtures the specification ships for 0.9.dev1
(ome/ngff-spec#190), the conformance report goes from 0/5 to 5/5:

fixture before after
valid/orientation input-not-ome-zarr valid
invalid/non_space_orientation input-not-ome-zarr orientation-on-non-space
invalid/duplicate_orientation input-not-ome-zarr duplicate-anatomical-axis
invalid/non_existent_orientation input-not-ome-zarr bad-value
invalid/non_existent_orientation_type input-not-ome-zarr bad-type

The TypeScript reader already reads the intrinsic system's axes, so this closes
a parity gap rather than opening one.

Full Python suite: 918 passed, 3 skipped.

Merge order

Worth taking before #659. That PR restores validation on the v0.6 read path,
which is what currently keeps the reader half of this dormant.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for reading axis metadata from legacy flat layouts and v0.6 coordinate-system layouts.
    • Improved coordinate-system selection and preservation of axis metadata.
    • Expanded RFC 4 orientation validation to cover non-spatial axes and malformed values.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved conformance reporting for missing, malformed, or unreadable axis metadata.
    • Empty, null, and absent orientations remain ignored, while invalid values are correctly validated and rejected.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for v0.6 metadata, intrinsic coordinate systems, missing axes, and orientation validation scenarios.

Since v0.6 the axes live in the intrinsic coordinate system rather than
in a flat `axes` key on the multiscales entry. Three call sites still
looked only for the flat key, each a copy of the v0.4 reader:

- the v0.6 reader's RFC-4 hook found no axes and skipped the orientation
  checks silently, so a v0.6 document with an orientation type other than
  "anatomical" read back without complaint where v0.4 and v0.5 reject it;
- `ngff-zarr conformance` reported `input-not-ome-zarr` with an empty axis
  map for every v0.6 input, valid or not. Against the five RFC-4 fixtures
  the specification ships for 0.9.dev1, it scored 0/5, including on the
  valid one;
- the v0.4 reader, which was correct, but by having its own copy.

`_raw_axes` now answers "where are the axes" once, and the three sites
call it. Against the same five fixtures the conformance report is 5/5,
each violation carrying its own code (`orientation-on-non-space`,
`duplicate-anatomical-axis`, `bad-value`, `bad-type`).

The TypeScript reader already read the intrinsic system's axes, so this
also closes a parity gap rather than opening one.
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The change adds shared axis extraction for flat and v0.6 coordinate-system metadata. RFC 4 validation now uses this helper across conformance and v0.4 and v0.6 metadata parsing. Tests cover missing, malformed, and non-spatial orientation metadata.

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Unified axis extraction and RFC 4 validation

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Raw axis extraction contract
py/ngff_zarr/parse_metadata.py, py/test/test_parse_metadata_axes.py
_raw_axes reads flat axes first. It resolves intrinsic coordinate systems by transformation output and falls back to the first system. Tests cover lookup precedence, fallback, malformed metadata, and raw entry preservation.
RFC 4 orientation validation
py/ngff_zarr/rfc4_validation.py, py/ngff_zarr/structural_validation.py, py/ngff_zarr/rfc4_conformance.py, py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py, py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py
RFC 4 validation detects orientation metadata on any axis. Conformance and v0.4 and v0.6 metadata parsing use _raw_axes before validation.
Validation and conformance coverage
py/test/test_cli_conformance.py, py/test/test_rfc4_validation.py
Tests cover v0.6 conformance reports, duplicate anatomical axes, missing axes, non-spatial orientation, and empty or null orientation values.

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The PR corrects axis lookup across the affected Python readers and conformance paths, with the reported test suite passing; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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  participant Metadata
  participant RawAxes
  participant RFC4Validation
  participant Report
  Metadata->>RawAxes: provide flat or intrinsic-system metadata
  RawAxes-->>RFC4Validation: return axis entries
  RFC4Validation->>RFC4Validation: detect orientation metadata
  RFC4Validation-->>Report: emit conformance result
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A rabbit mapped axes tucked deep in a zarr,
Flat paths or intrinsic, now found where they are.
Orientations on time no longer hide,
Validation checks every axis inside.
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Use absolute local imports.

Replace the changed relative imports with ngff_zarr.parse_metadata imports.

  • py/ngff_zarr/rfc4_conformance.py#L28-L28: import _raw_axes from ngff_zarr.parse_metadata.
  • py/ngff_zarr/v04/zarr_metadata.py#L428-L428: import _parse_omero and _raw_axes from ngff_zarr.parse_metadata.
  • py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py#L664-L664: import _parse_omero and _raw_axes from ngff_zarr.parse_metadata.

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In `@py/ngff_zarr/rfc4_conformance.py` at line 28, Replace the relative imports
with absolute local imports from ngff_zarr.parse_metadata: update _raw_axes in
py/ngff_zarr/rfc4_conformance.py at lines 28-28; update _parse_omero and
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Two ways the RFC-4 checks still missed the document they exist to catch.

The v0.6 axes were read from `coordinateSystems[0]`. The intrinsic system is
whichever one the datasets map into, named by their transformation `output`,
and nothing requires it to be listed first: another system's axes were
validated and reported instead. `_raw_axes` now resolves it by name, mirroring
`Metadata.intrinsic_coordinate_system` at the dict level, and falls back to the
first system when the datasets name no output.

Both readers gated validation on `has_rfc4_orientation_metadata`, which by
design reports only whether a *spatial* axis is oriented. A document whose only
orientation sits on a time or channel axis therefore skipped validation, and
that orientation is itself the RFC-4 violation. `has_any_rfc4_orientation`
answers the question the gate is asking; `validate_axis_orientation` carried
its own copy of that logic and now shares it.

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- Around line 241-243: Update the orientation-presence check used by
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undefined; do not use truthiness, which incorrectly excludes falsey non-object
values such as [], "", 0, and False. Add regression cases covering these falsey
non-object orientations.

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- Around line 574-594: Add a pytest.importorskip guard for jsonschema with the
specified reason before invoking validate_rfc4_orientation in
test_orientation_on_a_non_space_axis_is_reachable, so the test skips cleanly
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`has_any_rfc4_orientation` tested truthiness, so `[]`, `""`, `0` and `False`
read as absent and skipped validation. `validate_rfc4_orientation` rejects each
of them, so the gate hid exactly the documents it exists to route there. Only
`None` and `{}` are undefined under RFC 4, which is the pair the validator
itself skips.

The reachability test calls the validator directly, so it guards on the
optional `jsonschema` dependency like the rest of the file.

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The new case reached `jsonschema.ValidationError` through the module-scope
import; it now takes it from the `importorskip` handle, so it depends only on
its own guard.

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@vboussot thank you!

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