When a BUFR message is selected in the BUFR Message List panel the Message Contents panel in the right hand side of the window will show its metadata and data contents. This panel is divided into four tabs.
The Data tab show the message contents in a hierarchical structure (as a tree). This tree is divided into two main branches:
The information presented in the tree is spread across four columns:
When a key is selected in the tree the Key information panel on the right shows detailed information about it.
For BUFR elements with the units of CODE TABLE or FLAG TABLE a worded description, taken from the Code/Flag tables, of the actual value is also shown here. |
If a key contains multiple values (i.e. a vector) the the Key information panel show all the values. It can happen in either of these cases:
This tab contains all the data values for a compressed message as huge table.
This tabs gives information about the tables ecCodes used to decode the current message.
When clicking on this tab ecCodes is rerun to decode the message again with the ECCODES_DEBUG env variable set to 1. The information generated during this run is then shown in the tab.
Please note that this process can be significantly slower than decoding the message in non-debug mode. |