Given an ncid and a typeid, get the information about a user defined type. This function will work on any user defined type, whether compound, opaque, enumeration, or variable length array.
nc_inq_user_type(int ncid, nc_type xtype, char *name, size_t *sizep, nc_type *base_nc_typep, size_t *nfieldsp, int *classp);
ncid
xtype
name
sizep
nfieldsp
classp
NC_NOERR
NC_EBADTYPEID
NC_EBADFIELDID
NC_EHDFERR
/* Create a file. */ if (nc_create(FILE_NAME, NC_NETCDF4, &ncid)) ERR; /* Create an enum type. */ if (nc_def_enum(ncid, NC_INT, TYPE_NAME, &typeid)) ERR; for (i = 0; i < NUM_MEMBERS; i++) if (nc_insert_enum(ncid, typeid, member_name[i], &member_value[i])) ERR; /* Check it out. */ if (nc_inq_user_type(ncid, typeid, name_in, &base_size_in, &base_nc_type_in, &nfields_in, &class_in)) ERR; if (strcmp(name_in, TYPE_NAME) || base_size_in != sizeof(int) || base_nc_type_in != NC_INT || nfields_in != NUM_MEMBERS || class_in != NC_ENUM) ERR;