Merge pull request #65 from pmarks/pmarks/attrs

attribute support

Author: mulimoen

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -44,7 +44,10 @@
   also knows how to deallocate itself; it supports all of the HDF5 types including
   compound types, strings and arrays.
 - Added methods to `Dataset`: `layout`, `dapl`, `access_plist`, `dcpl`, `create_plist`.
-  
+- Added support for attributes. The Attribute API uses the new Dataset API. Attributes
+  only supports the same operations as `hdf5` (e.g. one can not perform partial IO,
+  but must read the entire attribute at once).
+ 
  ### Changed
 
 - Required Rust compiler version is now `1.51`.

src/hl.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+pub mod attribute;
 pub mod container;
 pub mod dataset;
 pub mod dataspace;
@@ -12,6 +13,10 @@ pub mod plist;
 pub mod selection;
 
 pub use self::{
+    attribute::{
+        Attribute, AttributeBuilder, AttributeBuilderData, AttributeBuilderEmpty,
+        AttributeBuilderEmptyShape,
+    },
     container::{Container, Reader, Writer},
     dataset::{
         Dataset, DatasetBuilder, DatasetBuilderData, DatasetBuilderEmpty, DatasetBuilderEmptyShape,