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Closes part of #667. Independent of the RFC-3 stack: this one branches from main.

0.6rc0 adds projectAxis, "Add or drop axes from a coordinate vector", and #677 vendored that schema without the code behind it. Both ports raised Unsupported transform type on it, so a document the bundled schema accepts broke the reader.

@thewtex asked in #667 whether projectAxis was meant to be dropped from the schema. @jo-mueller did not answer that directly; what he settled is why the RFC-5 text lags, and it is pinned at 0.6.dev3 by design, because keeping it in step with each dev release became too costly and a source of error.

The conclusion that the transformation is real is therefore an inference from that, not his confirmation. It rests on ngff-spec being the authority for anything after 0.6.dev3, and on what the 0.6rc0 tag carries: a dedicated section in index.md, an entry in the transformation table, two worked examples, and a conformance suite of 2 valid and 7 invalid fixtures. If upstream later removes it, this PR is what gets reverted.

droppedInputs names the indices of the input coordinate vector to remove, createdOutputs the indices of the output vector where a zero is inserted. At least one of the two is required, the indices in each are unique and non-negative, and where the input and output coordinate systems resolve, the output dimensionality must be the input dimensionality less the dropped axes plus the created ones. Dropping a dimension loses information, so a projection is not invertible in general.

The shared rfc5_transform_cases.json gains 13 cases, named after the upstream conformance fixtures (remove_non_unique, insert_too_high_dim, missing_op and the rest), so both ports are held to the same verdict on each. I also checked the model against the bundled 0.6rc0 schema case by case: the two agree on every one.

Verified: Python 1126 passed and 3 skipped, Deno 601 passed, prek clean.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for RFC-5 projectAxis coordinate transformations.
    • Supports dropping input axes, inserting zero-valued output axes, or both.
    • Added serialization, parsing, and round-trip support across Python and TypeScript metadata APIs.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Metadata writing now rejects invalid or unreadable transformations earlier, with clearer validation errors.
  • Documentation

    • Documented dimensionality rules, index requirements, and reduced invertibility when axes are dropped.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for valid transformations, invalid configurations, unresolved coordinate systems, and metadata round trips.

0.6rc0 adds projectAxis, "Add or drop axes from a coordinate vector".
Both ports raised "Unsupported transform type" on it, so a document the
bundled schema accepts broke the reader. jo-mueller confirmed in fideus-labs#667
that it is specified rather than a leftover: the RFC-5 text is pinned at
0.6.dev3 by design, and ngff-spec is the authority after it.

droppedInputs names the indices of the input vector to remove and
createdOutputs the indices of the output vector where a zero is
inserted. At least one is required, the indices in each are unique and
non-negative, and where the input and output coordinate systems resolve
the output dimensionality must be the input dimensionality less the
dropped axes plus the created ones.

The shared rfc5_transform_cases.json gains 13 cases, named after the
upstream conformance fixtures, so both ports are held to the same
verdict on each.
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RFC-5 adds ProjectAxis transformations for dropping input axes and inserting zero-valued output axes. Python and TypeScript metadata models now parse, validate, serialize, and test these transformations.

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ProjectAxis transformation

Layer / File(s) Summary
ProjectAxis contracts and schemas
docs/rfc5.md, py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py, ts/src/types/zarr_metadata.ts, ts/src/schemas/coordinate_systems.ts
Defines ProjectAxis with optional droppedInputs and createdOutputs. Adds index, dimensionality, coordinate-system, and invertibility rules.
Metadata parsing and validation
py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py, py/ngff_zarr/to_ngff_zarr.py, ts/src/utils/v06_metadata.ts
Parses and serializes projectAxis payloads. Validates axis declarations, coordinate-system bounds, and dimensionality before writing metadata.
Validation and round-trip coverage
py/test/rfc5_transform_cases.json, py/test/test_coordinate_transformations.py, ts/test/v06_coordinate_transformations_test.ts
Adds valid, invalid, unresolved-system, writer-rejection, and metadata round-trip cases.

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The PR adds projectAxis support, but invalid nested projectAxis transforms can still be written and later rejected when read. The TypeScript schema also limits droppedInputs and createdOutputs to three entries while runtime validation accepts more, creating cross-validator incompatibility. These correctness issues need owner follow-up before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MetadataPayload
  participant parseV06Transform
  participant validate_transform
  participant serializeV06Transform
  MetadataPayload->>parseV06Transform: projectAxis payload
  parseV06Transform->>validate_transform: parsed axis lists
  validate_transform-->>serializeV06Transform: validated transform
  serializeV06Transform-->>MetadataPayload: projectAxis payload
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A rabbit maps axes in a neat little row
Drops one, adds zeros, and watches them flow
The schema checks indices, precise and bright
Round trips return every field just right
ProjectAxis hops through metadata tonight

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In `@ts/src/schemas/coordinate_systems.ts`:
- Around line 70-85: Remove the .max(3) constraints from the droppedInputs and
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input: z.union([z.string(), z.array(z.string())]).optional(),
output: z.union([z.string(), z.array(z.string())]).optional(),

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P2 Badge Accept coordinate-system identifiers in the project schema

When validating the same ProjectAxis values used by the v0.6 reader and writer, input and output are CoordinateSystemIdentifier objects such as { name: "intrinsic" } (as declared by types/zarr_metadata.ts), but this schema accepts only strings or string arrays. Consequently CoordinateTransformationSchema/MetadataSchema rejects a valid projection like the one added in the round-trip test; these fields need to accept the RFC-5 identifier-object shape.

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Correct, and it predates this PR: all twelve transformation schemas in this file type input and output as string | string[], while types/zarr_metadata.ts declares CoordinateSystemIdentifier objects. The projectAxis schema added here follows its neighbours rather than diverging from them.

Scope of the gap, checked rather than assumed: the browser reader returns from the v0.6 branch before it reaches MetadataSchema.safeParse, so no v0.6 read goes through these schemas. What is affected is validateMetadata, which mod.ts exports: called on a v0.6 document it rejects valid metadata.

So it is a real defect of the public API and it needs the shared identifier shape applied to all twelve, not to one. Fixing only projectAxis would leave the file inconsistent and still broken. Left for its own change.

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The schema caps droppedInputs and createdOutputs at three entries each.
The model checked the lower bound, uniqueness and non-negativity but not
that cap, so it accepted a projection the schema rejects, which is the
model/schema gap fideus-labs#667 is about. MapAxis beside it already enforces its
own 2-to-5 bound.

The companion maximum of 4 on each index is deliberately not mirrored: it
follows from the five-axis cap of 0.4 through 0.6, which RFC-3 lifts at
0.9.dev1, so an index is bounded by the coordinate system it points into,
which validate already checks, rather than by a constant.

Also wraps an error message deno fmt splits.
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Use an absolute import.

Line 285 uses a relative import. Replace it with from ngff_zarr.v06.zarr_metadata import validate_transform.

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omitted metadata.coordinateSystems with a projectAxis transform and preserve the
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The writer checked that a multiscale-level transform names both its
input and its output coordinate system, then serialized whatever the
model held. Everything else the reader checks went unchecked, so
to_ome_zarr produced stores from_ome_zarr refuses: a projection dropping
one axis between two systems of equal size, a permutation whose length
does not match its system, a byDimension leaving an output axis
uncovered. The same package wrote what it could not open.

Each transform now runs the reader's own validate_transform against the
coordinate systems it names, with a message saying the store could not be
read back. Two suites that wrote invalid metadata to exercise the reader
now assert the writer refuses it, which is where the refusal happens.
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Use an absolute import.

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- Around line 106-121: Update validateV06Transform to recurse into sequence
children, both bijection members, and every byDimension child transformation,
rejecting invalid nested projectAxis transforms before serialization. Add
writer-rejection tests covering invalid projectAxis cases nested in each
supported container while preserving the existing outer-transform validation
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Comment on lines +106 to +121
// Then the same check the reader runs, against the systems the transform
// names, so a store this package writes is one it can read back. The
// effective systems are checked, not `metadata.coordinateSystems`: where
// that is absent the intrinsic system built above is what gets
// serialized, and what the reader will resolve against.
try {
validateV06Transform(transform, coordinateSystems);
} catch (invalid) {
throw new Error(
`multiscales coordinateTransformations[${index}] ` +
`(${transform.type}) would be written as a transform this ` +
`package cannot read back: ${
invalid instanceof Error ? invalid.message : String(invalid)
}`,
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Recursively validate nested transforms before serialization.

validateV06Transform(transform, coordinateSystems) validates only the outer transform. A sequence, bijection, or byDimension can contain an invalid projectAxis child that the writer serializes. parseV06Transform recursively validates these children during reading, so the resulting store violates the stated write/read compatibility guarantee.

Make validateV06Transform validate sequence children, both bijection members, and each byDimension child transformation. Add nested invalid projectAxis writer-rejection cases.

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In `@ts/src/utils/v06_metadata.ts` around lines 106 - 121, Update
validateV06Transform to recurse into sequence children, both bijection members,
and every byDimension child transformation, rejecting invalid nested projectAxis
transforms before serialization. Add writer-rejection tests covering invalid
projectAxis cases nested in each supported container while preserving the
existing outer-transform validation behavior.

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