Identify the type of object that a reference points to

H5Rget_obj_type(ref, h5loc)

Arguments

ref

H5ref object containing the reference to be queried.

h5loc

An H5IdComponent object representing the file containing the referenced object.

Value

Character string of length 1 identifying the object type. Valid return values are: "GROUP", "DATASET", and "NAMED_DATATYPE".