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Author SHA1 Message Date
Binh-Minh Ribler
f8fb310610 [svn-r24188] Purpose: Fixed bug introduced in r24163
Description:
    - The failure in daily test was caused by missing initialization of member
    "id" in a few constructors.  This is now fixed.
    - Added two overloaded H5Location::setComment
    - Improved some error reporting in H5Location
    - Improved error reporting in tests
Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    SunOS 5.11 (emu)
    Linux/64 2.6 (koala)/PGI compilers
2013-09-22 19:39:44 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
1b22cc435e [svn-r24178] Back out the changes that cause daily test to fail r24163 2013-09-20 13:53:21 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
4182c81add [svn-r24163] Purpose: More on HDFFV-7520 and HDFFV-533
Description:
    - Improved the changes in revisions r22836 and r23438, mainly on the
      wrappers of reference, dereference, get region, and set/getcomment.
    - Added more tests.

Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    SunOS 5.11 (emu)
    Linux/ppc64 (ostrich)
2013-09-18 22:08:28 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
d95f5e293a [svn-r24162] backing out a commit that includes wrong files 2013-09-18 21:41:00 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
18b896112c [svn-r24161] Purpose: More on HDFFV-7520 and HDFFV-533
Description:
    - Completed the changes in revisions r22836 and r23438 with improvement
    on wrappers such as reference, dereference, get region, and set/getcomment.
    - Added more tests.
Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    SunOS 5.11 (emu)
    Linux/ppc64 (ostrich)
2013-09-18 20:54:54 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
afb5fc5c35 [svn-r24143] Description:
Fixed comments, documentation, and mis-matched DOXYGEN_SHOULD_SKIP_THIS pairs.
Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    Regenerated and verified generated documentation.
2013-09-16 09:39:52 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
9c3f82fbd7 [svn-r22845] Purpose: Misc fixes
Description:
    Fixed miscellaneous inconsistencies and typos, which also took
    care of the failure in Packet Table test on daily test today.
Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    Linux/64 2.6 (koala)
    Mac Lion (duck)
2012-09-28 17:18:33 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
5fcec401bd [svn-r22836] Purpose: Fix bug HDFFV-533 and add other missing functions
Description:
    In this bug, H5File doesn't have the ability to create attribute.  The
    following changes will provide that functionality and several others that
    were also missing:
    - Added an abstract class H5Location in between IdComponent and H5Object.
    - New class structure of IdComponent, H5Location, H5Object, H5File
                                IdComponent
                                     |
                                H5Location
                                /        \
                        H5Object        H5File
    - Wrappers in H5Object were moved to H5Location because the related C
      functions take either file, group, dataset, or named datatype ID.
    - Added wrapper for H5Rget_obj_type2
    - Added tests for file attributes and H5Rget_obj_type2 wrapper
Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    Linux/64 2.6 (koala)
    SunOS 5.10 (linew)
2012-09-27 18:26:16 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
88ce565d7d [svn-r22235] Purpose: Fixed bugs HDFFV-2761 & HDFFV-7852
Description:
    - Replaced PredType::NotAtexit() with PredType::AtExit(H5CPP_EXITED);
      and used PredType::AtExit as a flag to detect when all predefined
      types have been destroyed.  Then, H5close will be called to terminate
      the library after its being re-initiated when the PredType destructors
      were activated.  This change removed the memory leaks shown by the
      user's sample program.
    - Added H5CPP_EXITED for PredType::AtExit to use as a flag
    - Updated some inaccurate comments
    - Removed stream functions from FileAccPropList
    - Replaced H5_VMS with appropriate macro in H5IdComponent.cpp
    - Corrected many URLs (hdfgroup vs. ncsa) in comments
    - Replaced std::string with H5std_string in comments
Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    Linux/64 2.6 (amani)
    SunOS 5.10 (linew)
2012-04-01 22:14:19 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
19a6303205 [svn-r22128] Purpose: Fixed bug 4279
Description:
    Closed various HDF5 objects in DataSet::getInMemDataSize and
    Attribute::getInMemDataSize to remove some memory leaks.
Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    Linux/64 2.6 (amani)
    SunOS 5.10 (linew)
2012-03-22 19:50:36 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
aa0772d9b2 [svn-r19395] Purpose: Fixed bug 1903
Description:
    After a C++ API object is closed, its id should be reset regardless
    of the reference count of the underlying HDF5 object.  User reported
    the bug for Group, but it's applicable to all other objects.  Fixed.
Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty)
    SunOS 5.10 (linew)
2010-09-16 00:59:39 -05:00
Quincey Koziol
fd70b2afa8 [svn-r18197] Description:
Trim trailing whitespace from source code files with this command:

find . \( -name "*.[ch]" -or -name "*.cpp" -or -name "*.f90" \) -print |xargs -n 1 sed -i "" 's/[[:blank:]]*$//'

Tested on:
    None - eyeballed only
2010-01-29 23:29:13 -05:00
Quincey Koziol
63647f7f56 [svn-r17596] Description:
Clean up minor compiler warning.

Tested on:
	Mac OS X/32 10.6.1 (amazon)
2009-10-06 11:53:41 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
c1ad3676c4 [svn-r17238] Purpose: Fix bug and improve readability
Description:
    - Revised DataSet::write to pass in correct string buffer
    - Added member function DataSet::getInMemDataSize() to simplify
      getting the dataset's data size in memory.
    - Added private functions for reading fixed- and variable-length
      string data: p_read_fixed_len and p_read_variable_len.
    - Added tests to write/read array of strings to datasets.

Platforms tested:
    Linux/32 2.6 (jam)
    FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty)
    SunOS 5.10 (linew)
2009-07-26 23:00:17 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
3677f54877 [svn-r15959] Description:
Added missing wrappers for H5Rdereference.
    Also, for these wrappers, improved exception handlings to report specific
        overloaded functions, where failure occurs.  Will do the same for more
        functions later...

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.6 (kagiso)
    SunOS 5.10 (linew)
    FreeBSD (duty)
2008-10-26 21:30:06 -05:00
Quincey Koziol
bdd7d59902 [svn-r15628] Description:
Remove trailing whitespace from C/C++ source files, with the following
script:

    foreach f (*.[ch] *.cpp)
        sed 's/[[:blank:]]*$//' $f > sed.out && mv sed.out $f
    end

Tested on:
    Mac OS X/32 10.5.5 (amazon)
    No need for h5committest, just whitespace changes...
2008-09-16 10:52:51 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
18fb7d1a78 [svn-r15407] Purpose: Fix bug
Description:
    Changed all subclasses' setId to protected p_setId and put back setId
    in IdComponent.  p_setId is used in the library where the id provided
    by a C API passed on to user's application in the form of a C++ API
    object, which will be destroyed properly, and so p_setId does not
    call incRefCount.  On the other hand, the public version setId is
    used by other applications, in which the id passed to setId needs
    to be closed properly by the application, so setId must call incRefCount
    for the new object to prevent prematurely closing of the id.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.6 (kagiso)
    SunOS 5.10 (linew)
    FreeBSD (duty)
2008-07-25 16:51:01 -05:00
Raymond Lu
8704820d1c [svn-r15395] When an attribute was opened twice and data was written with one of the handles,
the file didn't have the data.  It happened because each handle had its own
object structure, and the empty one overwrote the data with fill value.  This is
fixed by making some attribute information like the data be shared in the
attribute structure.

Tested on smirom, kagiso, and linew.
2008-07-22 15:36:31 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
e5df9bb33a [svn-r15309] Purpose: Fixed bugs
Description:
    The class hierarchy was revised to address the problem reported in
    bugzilla #1068.  Classes AbstractDS and Attribute are moved out of
    H5Object.  Class Attribute now multiply inherits from IdComponent and
    AbstractDs and class DataSet from H5Object and AbstractDs.

    In addition, data member IdComponent::id was moved into subclasses:
    Attribute, DataSet, DataSpace, DataType, H5File, Group, and PropList.

Platforms tested:
    SunOS 5.10 (linew)
    Linux 2.6 (kagiso)
    FreeBSD (duty)
2008-07-02 09:56:42 -05:00
Quincey Koziol
d3ee3988b6 [svn-r14192] Description:
Deprecate H5Dextend in favor of H5Dset_extent (without using API
versioning, due to changed behavior) and switch internal usage to H5Dset_extent

Tested on:
        FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode
        FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
        Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
                                in debug mode
        Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
                                in production mode
        Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
                                in production mode
        Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
                                w/szip filter, in production mode
        Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) in debug mode
2007-10-08 10:26:02 -05:00
Quincey Koziol
94153c6c3d [svn-r14148] Description:
Add H5Rget_obj_type() to the API versioning and switch internal
routines to use H5Rget_obj_type2()

	Misc. other code cleanups, etc.

Tested on:
        FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty)
        FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty)
        Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso)
        Linux/64 2.6 (smirom)
        AIX/32 5.3 (copper)
        Solaris/32 2.10 (linew)
        Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon)
2007-09-13 20:52:38 -05:00
Albert Cheng
ed7d456e51 [svn-r13253] Updated all C and C++ style source code files with the THG copyright notice.
Tested platform:
Kagiso only since it is only a comment block change.  If it works in one
machine, it should work in all, I hope.  Still need to check the parallel
build on copper.
2007-02-07 09:56:24 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
e5fff45c09 [svn-r13092] Purpose: Maintenance
Description:
    Added overloaded method DataSet::vlenReclaim, that has better prototype.
    Fixed some typos.

Platforms tested
    AIX 5.1 (copper)
    SunOS 5.8 64-bit (sol)
    Linux 2.6 (kagiso)
2007-01-01 21:11:25 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
daa61b5986 [svn-r12795] Purpose: Fixing bug
Description:
    Wrappers of H5Rcreate had incorrect prototypes.

Solution:
    Added these overloaded functions for H5Rcreate wrapper to IdComponent:
        void reference(void* ref, const char* name, DataSpace& dataspace,
                        H5R_type_t ref_type = H5R_DATASET_REGION) const;
        void reference(void* ref, const char* name) const;
        void reference(void* ref, const H5std_string& name) const;

    Added these overloaded functions for H5Rdereference:
        void dereference(IdComponent& obj, void* ref);
        DataSet(IdComponent& obj, void* ref);
        Group(IdComponent& obj, void* ref);
        DataType(IdComponent& obj, void* ref);

    The incorrect wrappers will be removed after announcing.

Platform tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    AIX 5.1 (copper)
    SunOS 5.8 64-bit (sol)
2006-10-22 03:22:30 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
32d3e6f04f [svn-r12404] Purpose: Fix typos/formats
Description:
    Fixed typos and re-arranged some functions to be in sync with 1.6.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    SunOS 5.9 (shanti)
    AIX 5.1 (copper)
2006-06-05 11:17:36 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
deec486732 [svn-r12368] Purpose: Fixed bug
Description:
    Shanti compiler destroy unnamed objects later than others, which caused
    some reference counting test fail.  Revised the test so that destructors
    are called at the same time, regardless the differences of compiler
    implementation.

    Revised some constructors, close, operator=, and destructors to make
    sure that all the object ids are handled properly.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    SunOS 5.9 (shanti)
    HPUX 11.00 (kelgia)
    AIX 5.1 (copper)
2006-05-23 12:59:40 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
6f7076f47b [svn-r12200] Purpose: Maintenance
Description:
    Changed to alias string instead of std, i.e. H5std_string instead
    of H5std, because the old way wasn't working when std didn't exist.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    SunOS 5.8 64-bit (sol)
    HPUX 11.00 (kelgia) - this was the problematic platform but I wasn't
                                able to test before.
2006-04-05 11:23:39 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
92178e5fff [svn-r12185] Purpose: Code cleanup
Description:
    Removed an empty #ifdef block that was left by mistake.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping) - very minor
2006-03-31 11:32:31 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
a7e993d72b [svn-r12180] Purpose: Maintenance
Description:
    Added alias H5_std so either the global or std namespace can be
    used, depending on H5_NO_STD.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    SunOS 5.8 64-bit (sol)
    AIX 5.1 (copper)
2006-03-30 13:06:58 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
5ed48cf279 [svn-r11755] Purpose: Code improvement
Description:
    There was a workaround for predefined types, in the C++ library,
    implemented when the C++ library was handling the reference
    counting of the object ids on its own.  Currently, the C++ library
    is using the available APIs from the C library for that purpose,
    and there were bugs reported involving that part of the C++ library.
    So, I decided to remove the workaround completely.

    Also, improved the use of std members.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    SunOS 5.8 64-bit (sol)
    Linux 2.4 w/PGI (colonelk)
2005-12-03 07:21:25 -05:00
Quincey Koziol
6e7ed46998 [svn-r11487] Purpose:
Code cleanup

Description:
    Tweak copyright on C++ source files to reduce whining by copyright checking
script.

Platforms tested:
    FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) w/C++
2005-10-01 10:29:18 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
6496413284 [svn-r11264] Purpose: Additional code improvement
Description:
    Used "using" declaration and directive better to reduce namespace
    pollution.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    SunOS 5.8 64-bit (sol)
2005-08-18 17:16:56 -05:00
Quincey Koziol
6b45f5172c [svn-r11245] Purpose:
Code cleanup

Description:
    Trim trailing whitespace, which is making 'diff'ing the two branches
difficult.

Solution:
    Ran this script in each directory:

foreach f (*.[ch] *.cpp)
    sed 's/[[:blank:]]*$//' $f > sed.out && mv sed.out $f
end


Platforms tested:
    FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir)
    Too minor to require h5committest
2005-08-13 15:53:35 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
07592ad7c3 [svn-r11206] Purpose: Additional wrapper/Code improvement
Description:
    Added wrapper for H5Iget_type.
    Added try/catch to many APIs that call private functions so that more
        specific information can be provided at failure.
    Added IdComponent::inMemFunc to help providing specific info.
    Added const to parameters of several functions that missed that.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    SunOS 5.8 64-bit (sol)
    AIX 5.1 (copper)
    IRIX64 with -n32 (modi4)
    HPUX 11.00 (kelgia)
2005-08-07 22:53:58 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
fab172d704 [svn-r11151] Purpose: Fix bugzilla #407 and #408
Description:
    PropList::copyProp has incorrect prototype; although it works,
    it does cause users inconvenience.

Solution:
    Added another overloaded function with correct prototype.  The
    old version will be removed in a future release.  In the meantime,
    "Obsolete" will be displayed in its RM page.

    Also, changed several checks on the returned value of a C API from
    non-positive to negative because id = 0 is no longer significant,
    now that the C++ reference counting had been removed.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    IRIX64 with -n32 (modi4)
    Linux 2.4 w/PGI (colonelk)
2005-07-24 22:37:21 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
b14a4fd95f [svn-r11060] Purpose: Fix bug (reported by user)
Description:
    The use of FileCreatPropList::DEFAULT sometimes caused failure
    in the reference counting area.  This occurs to all the default
    property lists, which also include FileAccPropList::DEFAULT,
    DSetCreatPropList::DEFAULT, and DSetMemXferPropList::DEFAULT.
    H5P_DEFAULT was used to create these default prop lists and
    because its value is 0, the id of these prop lists are 0, which
    is rejected by the H5I functions during the reference counting.

Solution:
    The main action to fix the above problem was to use
        H5P_FILE_CREATE
        H5P_FILE_ACCESS
        H5P_DATASET_CREATE
        H5P_DATASET_XFER
    to define the default property lists accordingly.  Yet, when this
    fix was applied, some bug in reference counting was revealed.
    It appeared that some ids were not incremented but were passed in
    for decrementing.  The following actions were then taken to fix and
    improve the current use of reference counting H5I functions.

        * added private func IdComponent::p_valid_id to verify that the
          id is a valid id and can be passed into an H5I function
        * used p_valid_id to validate an id before calling an H5I functions
          in the reference-counting member functions incRefCount,
          decRefCount, and getCounter
        * changed to use member function incRefCount, decRefCount, and
          getCounter instead of the C APIs H5Iinc_ref, H5Idec_ref, and
          H5Iget_ref throughout IdComponent.

    In addition, overloadings were added for incRefCount, decRefCount,
    and getCounter to take an id different than the id of the current
    instance; they can be convenient during debugging.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    SunOS 5.8 64-bit (sol)
    AIX 5.1 (copper)
2005-07-10 06:26:56 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
3c48d3637b [svn-r10825] Purpose: Fix RM bug
Description:
    Doxygen 1.4.2 has a bug that when an \exception immediately
    follows a \brief, the exception will be displayed prominently
    in the brief section.

Solution:
    Temporarily added /// to after \brief to work around this
    problem and notified the Doxygen's author.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping) - only in documentation sections
2005-05-29 17:26:56 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
0d580697f6 [svn-r10816] Purpose: Fix bug (reported by user, not filed)
Description:
    Passing 0 where it should be "".  Fixed!

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping) - very minor, and has been in 1.6 for a while
2005-05-28 12:26:00 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
49fa4563ef [svn-r10212] Purpose: Added more wrappers
Description:
    Added the following to the C++ library
        + overloaded functions:
                string CommonFG::getObjnameByIdx(hsize_t idx)
                H5T_order_t AtomType::getOrder()
        + wrappers for H5*close
        + wrappers for H5Arename, H5Aget_storage_size, and H5Dget_storage_size

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    AIX 5.1 (copper)
    SunOS 5.8 64-bit (sol)
2005-03-14 14:32:26 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
6f2de2c62c [svn-r10050] Purpose: Fix bugzilla #241
Description:
    Checked return value from C API for failure condition.
    Added/Modified some comments appropriately.

Platforms tested:
    Linux 2.4 (heping)
    AIX 5.1 (copper) - tests passed but there were some old warnings about
			duplicate symbols on std::string; I'll check on that.
2005-02-20 15:45:44 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
824ba5e2fd [svn-r9129] Purpose: Updating documentation
Description:
    Updated various function headers for the RM as reviewing progresses.
    Rearranged functions in header files for more sensible look of the RM.

Platforms tested:
    SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
    Linux 2.4 (eirene)
2004-08-19 23:35:18 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
e6266dd7a1 [svn-r9049] Purpose: Clean up code
Description:
    Removed private functions p_close, that were left over from the
    removal of the reference counting mechanism.

Platforms tested:
    SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
    Linux 2.4 (eirene)

Misc. update:
    release_docs/RELEASE will be updated soon.
2004-08-07 01:30:15 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
47dd278b15 [svn-r9046] Purpose:
Code cleanup

Description:
    DataType::commit had incorrect parameter, H5Object.  Changed
    it to CommonFG, for H5File and Group.
    The change caused additional header files needed for several
    other cpp files.

    Moved some functions from Group into the base class CommonFG for
        H5File too.

Platforms tested:
    SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
    Linux 2.4 (eirene)

Misc. update:
2004-08-07 00:46:10 -05:00
Quincey Koziol
2ca10d0ace [svn-r8602] Purpose:
Code update

Description:
    Update C++ wrappers to use new ID reference counting mechanisms.

Platforms tested:
    FreeBSD 4.9 (sleipnir) w/C++
    Too focused to require h5committest
2004-06-01 09:47:19 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
dee9ad2b7e [svn-r8595] Purpose:
Add/Improve documentation

Description
    Added doxygen documentation to H5PredType.cpp and made minor changes
    to the others for either correction or clarification.

Platforms:
    SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
    Linux 2.4 (eirene)

Misc. update:
2004-05-28 01:25:56 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
f5492ae03b [svn-r8593] Purpose:
Add more C++ wrapper and documentation - incrementally check-in

Description
    Added another overloaded constructor to StrType.
    Added doxygen documentation to H5IdComponent.cpp.
    Corrected some comments.

    This is an incremental check-in to preserve the code, corresponding
    tests will follow in a few weeks.

Platforms:
    SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
    Linux 2.4 (eirene)

Misc. update:
2004-05-27 15:55:53 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
315ca49e4a [svn-r8588] Purpose:
Add C++ wrappers - incrementally check-in

Description
    Added wrapper for these C APIs:
        H5Rcreate
        H5Rget_obj_type
        H5Rget_region

    This is an incremental check-in to preserve the code, corresponding
    tests will follow in a few weeks.

Platforms:
    Linux 2.4 (eirene)
    I'm checking the code out and test on arabica too.

Misc. update:
2004-05-27 02:54:58 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
23de8877a3 [svn-r8587] Purpose:
Add C++ wrappers - incrementally check-in

Description
    Added wrapper for these C APIs:
        H5Dget_offset
        H5Dget_space_status

Platforms:
    SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
    Linux 2.4 (eirene)

Misc. update:
2004-05-26 18:33:55 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
80816a3dde [svn-r8576] Purpose:
Add more C++ wrapper and documentation - incrementally check-in

Description:
    Added doxygen documentation to:
        H5DataSet.cpp
        H5DataSpace.cpp
        H5CommonFG.cpp

    and a wrapper for H5Rcreate to H5Object.* with tests will be added
    later.

    There are more documentation need to be added to these files but
    to preserve the changes, I check them in now.

Platforms:
    SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
    Linux 2.4 (eirene)


Misc. update:
2004-05-26 02:02:51 -05:00
Binh-Minh Ribler
5d1b56cb81 [svn-r6990] Purpose:
Bug fix and minor code enhancement

Description:
    Missing methods to read/write C++ String for an attribute and
    a dataset.

Solution:
    Added overloaded functions read and write to H5::Attribute and
    H5::DataSet.

    Also, added another constructor StrType so the need to separately
    set the length of the string type can be eliminated.  It's minor
    but convenient.

    Made some minor changes to make error messages more readable.

Platforms:
    SunOS 5.7 (arabica)
    Linux 2.4 (eirene)
    IRIX 6.5.11 (modi4)
    HPUX 11.00 (kelgia)
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