.gitlab-ci.yml

 stages:
     - test
-    - examples
+    - deploy_test
+    - test_install
+    - deploy_prod
 
 test_docker:
     stage: test
@@ -12,3 +14,45 @@ test_docker:
         - export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
         - apt install -yq git python3 python3-pip python3-venv
     script: ./run_tests.sh
+    rules:
+        - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG == null'
+
+deploy-to-testpypi:
+  stage: deploy_test
+  image: python:3.8
+  tags:
+    - docker.meteo.physik.lmu.de
+  only:
+    - tags
+  script:
+    - pip install twine
+    - python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+    - twine upload -u $PYPI_TEST_USER -p $PYPI_TEST_PASSWORD --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ --skip-existing dist/*
+
+install-from-testpypi:
+  stage: test_install
+  image: python:3.8
+  tags:
+    - docker.meteo.physik.lmu.de
+  only:
+    - tags
+  needs: ["deploy-to-testpypi"]
+  script:
+    - pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple/ enstools-encoding
+  artifacts:
+    when: on_failure
+    paths:
+      - "*.log"
+
+deploy-to-pypi:
+  stage: deploy_prod
+  image: python:3.8
+  only:
+    - tags
+  tags:
+    - docker.meteo.physik.lmu.de
+  needs: ["install-from-testpypi"]
+  script:
+    - pip install twine
+    - python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+    - twine upload -u $PYPI_USERNAME -p $PYPI_PASSWORD --skip-existing dist/*
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VERSION

-2023.1
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+2023.4
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enstools/encoding/dataset_encoding.py

 import os
 from copy import deepcopy
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Union, Dict
+from typing import Hashable, Union, Dict
 
 import xarray
 import yaml
+import numpy as np
 
 from . import rules
 from .errors import InvalidCompressionSpecification
@@ -12,7 +13,50 @@ from .variable_encoding import _Mapping, parse_variable_specification, Encoding,
     NullEncoding
 
 
-def compression_dictionary_to_string(compression_dictionary: dict) -> str:
+def convert_size(size_bytes):
+    import math
+    if size_bytes < 0:
+        prefix = "-"
+        size_bytes = -size_bytes
+    else:
+        prefix = ""
+
+    if size_bytes == 0:
+        return "0B"
+    size_name = ("B", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB", "EB", "ZB", "YB")
+    i = int(math.floor(math.log(size_bytes, 1024)))
+    p = math.pow(1024, i)
+    s = round(size_bytes / p, 2)
+    return f"{prefix}{s}{size_name[i]}"
+
+
+def convert_to_bytes(size_string):
+    """
+    This function converts a given size string (e.g. '5MB') to the number of bytes.
+    
+    Args:
+    size_string (str): The size string to be converted (e.g. '5MB')
+    
+    Returns:
+    int: The number of bytes.
+    """
+    import re
+    size_string = size_string.upper()
+    digits = re.match(r'\d+(?:\.\d+)?', size_string)  # matches digits and optionally a dot followed by more digits
+    if digits:
+        digits = digits.group()  # get the matched digits
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"Invalid size string: {size_string}")
+    unit = size_string.replace(digits, "")
+    size_name_dict = {'B': 0, 'KB': 1, 'MB': 2, 'GB': 3, 'TB': 4, 'PB': 5, 'EB': 6, 'ZB': 7, 'YB': 8}
+    if unit in size_name_dict:
+        size_bytes = float(digits) * np.power(1024, size_name_dict[unit])
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"Invalid size string: {size_string}")
+    return int(size_bytes)
+
+
+def compression_dictionary_to_string(compression_dictionary: Dict[str, str]) -> str:
     """
     Convert a dictionary containing multiple entries to a single line specification
     """
@@ -20,7 +64,7 @@ def compression_dictionary_to_string(compression_dictionary: dict) -> str:
         [f"{key}{rules.VARIABLE_NAME_SEPARATOR}{value}" for key, value in compression_dictionary.items()])
 
 
-def parse_full_specification(spec: str) -> Dict[str, Encoding]:
+def parse_full_specification(spec: Union[str, None]) -> Dict[str, Encoding]:
     from enstools.encoding.rules import VARIABLE_SEPARATOR, VARIABLE_NAME_SEPARATOR, \
         DATA_DEFAULT_LABEL, DATA_DEFAULT_VALUE, COORD_LABEL, COORD_DEFAULT_VALUE
     result = {}
@@ -58,8 +102,8 @@ def parse_full_specification(spec: str) -> Dict[str, Encoding]:
             result[COORD_LABEL] = parse_variable_specification(COORD_DEFAULT_VALUE)
 
     # For each specification, check that the specifications are valid.
-    for key, spec in result.items():
-        spec.check_validity()
+    for _, _spec in result.items():
+        _spec.check_validity()
 
     return result
 
@@ -70,7 +114,7 @@ class DatasetEncoding(_Mapping):
     The kind of encoding that xarray expects is a mapping between the variables and their corresponding h5py encoding.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, dataset: xarray.Dataset, compression: Union[str, dict, None]):
+    def __init__(self, dataset: xarray.Dataset, compression: Union[str, Dict[str, str], Path, None]):
         self.dataset = dataset
 
         # Process the compression argument to get a single string with per-variable specifications
@@ -80,7 +124,7 @@ class DatasetEncoding(_Mapping):
         self.variable_encodings = parse_full_specification(compression)
 
     @staticmethod
-    def get_a_single_compression_string(compression: Union[str, dict, Path]) -> str:
+    def get_a_single_compression_string(compression: Union[str, Dict[str, str], Path, None]) -> Union[str, None]:
         # The compression parameter can be a string or a dictionary.
 
         # In case it is a string, it can be directly a compression specification or a yaml file.
@@ -120,18 +164,35 @@ class DatasetEncoding(_Mapping):
             var
             in self.dataset.data_vars}
 
-        # Add chunking?
-        for variable in self.dataset.data_vars:
-            chunks = {k: v if k != "time" else 1 for k, v in self.dataset[variable].sizes.items()}
-            chunk_sizes = tuple(chunks.values())
-            # Ugly python magic to add chunk sizes into the encoding mapping object.
-            data_variable_encodings[variable]._kwargs._kwargs["chunksizes"] = chunk_sizes  # noqa
-
         # Merge
         all_encodings = {**coordinate_encodings, **data_variable_encodings}
 
+        # Need to specify chunk size, otherwise it breaks down.
+        self.chunk(encodings=all_encodings)
+
         return all_encodings
 
+    def chunk(self, encodings: Dict[Union[Hashable, str], Encoding], chunk_memory_size="10MB"):
+        """
+        Add a variable "chunksizes" to each variable encoding with the corresponding 
+
+        Args:
+            encodings (dict): Dictionary with the corresponding encoding for each variable.
+            chunk_memory_size (str): Desired chunk size in memory.
+        """
+
+        chunk_memory_size = convert_to_bytes(chunk_memory_size)
+
+        # Loop over all the variables
+        for variable in self.dataset.data_vars:
+            da = self.dataset[variable]
+            type_size = da.dtype.itemsize
+
+            optimal_chunk_size = chunk_memory_size / type_size
+            chunk_sizes = find_chunk_sizes(data_array=da, chunk_size=optimal_chunk_size)
+            chunk_sizes = tuple(chunk_sizes[d] for d in da.dims)
+            encodings[variable].set_chunk_sizes(chunk_sizes)
+
     @property
     def _kwargs(self):
         return self.encoding()
@@ -153,3 +214,21 @@ def is_a_valid_dataset_compression_specification(specification):
         return True
     except InvalidCompressionSpecification:
         return False
+
+
+def find_chunk_sizes(data_array, chunk_size):
+    import math
+    total_points = np.prod(data_array.shape)
+    num_chunks = max(1, int(total_points // chunk_size))
+    chunk_sizes = {}
+    chunk_number = {}
+
+    # Sort dimensions by size
+    dims = sorted(data_array.dims, key=lambda x: data_array[x].shape)
+    pending_num_chunks = num_chunks
+    for dim in dims:
+        chunk_sizes[dim] = max(1, int(data_array[dim].size // pending_num_chunks))
+        chunk_number[dim] = data_array[dim].size // chunk_sizes[dim]
+
+        pending_num_chunks = math.ceil(pending_num_chunks / chunk_number[dim])
+    return chunk_sizes

enstools/encoding/variable_encoding.py

-from abc import ABC
 
 from .definitions import lossy_compressors_and_modes
 import logging
 
-from typing import Mapping, Union, Protocol
+from typing import Mapping, Union
 
 import hdf5plugin
 
@@ -22,7 +21,10 @@ class _Mapping(Mapping):
     """
     Subclass to implement dunder methods that are mandatory for Mapping to avoid repeating the code everywhere.
     """
-    _kwargs: Mapping
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self._kwargs = {}
 
     def __getitem__(self, item):
         return self._kwargs[item]
@@ -53,6 +55,19 @@ class Encoding(_Mapping):
     def __repr__(self):
         return f"{self.__class__.__name__}({self.to_string()})"
 
+    def set_chunk_sizes(self, chunk_sizes: tuple) -> None:
+        """
+        Method to add chunksizes into the encoding dictionary.
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        chunk_sizes
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+
+        """
+        self._kwargs["chunksizes"] = chunk_sizes
+
 
 class VariableEncoding(_Mapping):
     """
@@ -82,6 +97,7 @@ class VariableEncoding(_Mapping):
     >>> VariableEncoding(backend="snappy", compression_level=9)
 
     """
+
     def __new__(cls,
                 specification: str = None,
                 compressor: str = None,
@@ -115,12 +131,14 @@ class NullEncoding(Encoding):
 
 class LosslessEncoding(Encoding):
     def __init__(self, backend: str, compression_level: int):
+        super().__init__()
         self.backend = backend if backend is not None else rules.LOSSLESS_DEFAULT_BACKEND
         self.compression_level = compression_level if compression_level is not None \
             else rules.LOSSLESS_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION_LEVEL
 
         self.check_validity()
-        self._kwargs = self.encoding()
+        # Trying to convert it to a dictionary already here.
+        self._kwargs = dict(self.encoding())
 
     def check_validity(self) -> bool:
         if self.backend not in definitions.lossless_backends:
@@ -146,13 +164,16 @@ class LosslessEncoding(Encoding):
 
 class LossyEncoding(Encoding):
     def __init__(self, compressor: str, mode: str, parameter: Union[float, int]):
+        super().__init__()
         self.compressor = compressor
         self.mode = mode
 
         self.parameter = parameter
 
         self.check_validity()
-        self._kwargs = self.encoding()
+
+        # Trying to convert it to a dictionary already here.
+        self._kwargs = dict(self.encoding())
 
     def check_validity(self):
         # Check compressor validity
@@ -244,48 +265,6 @@ def parse_variable_specification(var_spec: str) -> Encoding:
         raise InvalidCompressionSpecification(f"Invalid specification {var_spec!r}")
 
 
-# class VariableEncoding(_Mapping):
-#     """
-#     Class to encapsulate compression specification parameters for a single variable.
-#
-#     It stores the compressor, the mode and the parameter.
-#
-#     It has a method to create a new instance from a specification string,
-#     a method to get the corresponding specification string from an existing object
-#     and a method to obtain the corresponding mapping expected by h5py.
-#
-#     """
-#
-#     def __init__(self, specification: Specification):
-#         # Init basic components
-#         self.specification = specification
-#
-#         self._kwargs = self.filter_mapping()
-#
-#     @staticmethod
-#     def from_string(string: str) -> 'VariableEncoding':
-#         specification = parse_variable_specification(string)
-#         """
-#         Method to create a specification object from a specification string
-#         """
-#         return VariableEncoding(specification)
-#
-#     def to_string(self) -> str:
-#         """
-#         Method to obtain a specification string from a specification object
-#         """
-#         return self.specification.to_string()
-#
-#     def filter_mapping(self) -> Mapping:
-#         """
-#         Method to get the corresponding FilterRefBase expected by h5py/xarray
-#         """
-#
-#         return self.specification.encoding()
-#
-#     def description(self):
-#         self.specification.description()
-
 def get_variable_encoding(
         specification: str = None,
         compressor: str = None,