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I think that makes sense!
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This PR removes the default chunk encoding parameters from the config.
Prior to the data types refactor, when we inferred the chunk encoding automatically, we categorized the array data type into one of a few categories like "numeric", "string", "bytes". These categories were created before we added datetimes and fixed-length strings, and they don't really make sense after those data types were added:
It's not really possible to preserve the old categories in the config now that we have more data types that resist categorization. I don't think it's really possible break the data types down into a small number of general categories, and it's less possible / attractive to put this categorization logic in our config.
I think a better solution is for zarr python to choose sane defaults; when users want something other than the default, they specify it in the function call. In practice these sane defaults are the same codecs for all data types except the variable-length data types, which get special treatment (data types with endianness in zarr v3 also get a
bytes
codec with an endianness parameter). That's what I added in this PR. The default chunk encoding parameters each come from functions that are inaccessible to configuration.I did a quick github survey to find users who might be using the zarr config to change the default codecs, and I could only find 2: @TomAugspurger uses the config here and @dcangst in here.