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Support xarray.DataTree

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
data

Research direction

Start with DatasetToChunks and the existing support for lists of Dataset objects. Trace how multiple datasets are loaded from disk, then determine the changes needed for native xarray.DataTree support; done means a DataTree can be handled for simultaneous dataset loading.

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Description

Xarray's new DataTree structure provides a convenient way to structure hierarchical datasets.

It would be great to natively support DataTree inside Xarray-Beam. In particular, this would be much more usable for simultaneously loading multiple datasets from disk than the current support for lists of Dataset objects in DatasetToChunks.

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Python
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