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Step-by-step guide

For the moment there is no simple way of knowing what the type of a key value is. However, the library provides a function that can be used to find out what the native type of a key value is.
In the C API, there is a function called "codes_get_native_type" which returns an integer which can be checked against the following macros:

CODES_TYPE_UNDEFINED
CODES_TYPE_LONG
CODES_TYPE_DOUBLE
CODES_TYPE_STRING
CODES_TYPE_BYTES
CODES_TYPE_SECTION
CODES_TYPE_LABEL
CODES_TYPE_MISSING

In the Python interface, the same function "codes_get_native_type" has a simpler interface and returns one of: "int", "float" or "str".


As of version 2.14.0, one can use the grib_dump tool with the "-p" option to dump a given key and query its type with the "-t" option.
E.g.

% grib_dump -t -p identifier my.grib
  # type ascii (str)
  #-READ ONLY- identifier = GRIB;

% grib_dump -t -p referenceValue my.grib
  # type ieeefloat (double)
  #-READ ONLY- referenceValue = 45.67;

Here you can see that the key "identifier" is of type string and "referenceValue" is a double.


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