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Fix ZarrAvgMerger under zarr 3.3: map chunks=True to auto-chunking - #9077

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Fixes part of #9069 (the zarr row of the failure table: 20 errors in tests/inferers/test_zarr_avg_merger.py under zarr 3.3.0).

Description

zarr 3.3 removed boolean chunk arguments. ZarrAvgMerger's documented default is chunks=True ("chunk shape will be guessed from shape and dtype"), so on zarr 3.3 every construction with the default raises:

ValueError: True is not a valid chunk input. Use chunks=None or chunks="auto" ...

This isn't reachable in CI because full-dep pins Python 3.10, and zarr >= 3.0 requires Python >= 3.11 (3.3.0 resolves only on >= 3.12) — the version-resolution gap described in #9069.

I verified the chunk-argument semantics empirically across versions before choosing the fix:

zarr chunks=True chunks=None chunks=False
3.0.0 auto-chunking one whole-shape chunk one whole-shape chunk
3.2.0 auto-chunking auto-chunking one whole-shape chunk
3.3.0 ValueError auto-chunking one whole-shape chunk

So the fix maps True -> None only when zarr >= 3.3.0. A blanket substitution would silently change zarr 3.0 behaviour from auto-chunking to a single whole-shape chunk, which for large merged volumes defeats the point of using zarr at all. chunks=False and explicit chunk shapes work on every version and pass through unchanged. The public API and documented semantics stay exactly as they are.

Note: the error message's own suggestion (chunks="auto") does not work in the zarr.empty/zarr.zeros convenience API — the string is interpreted as a 4-element sequence and fails with a dimension mismatch. None is the spelling that works there, which is why the mapping targets it.

Second, smaller breakage in the same suite

zarr 3.3 also requires the bytes codec to declare endianness for multi-byte dtypes. Five test fixtures used {"name": "bytes", "configuration": {}}, which now fails with The 'endian' configuration needs to be specified for multi-byte data types. The fixtures now set {"endian": "little"}, which is accepted from zarr 3.0 on (verified with a write/read round-trip on 3.0.0 and 3.3.0). This is a fixture fix, not a merger.py change — the codecs are caller-supplied, and callers hitting this get zarr's own clear error. The count_codecs case was already passing because uint8 is single-byte.

Regression test

The existing default-parameter tests only prove construction doesn't raise; none of them would catch True silently degrading to a whole-shape chunk, since at the fixtures' 4x4 size auto and whole-shape coincide. The added test_zarr_avg_merger_default_chunks_auto uses a 4096x4096 merged shape, where auto-chunking yields (512, 512), and asserts the default does not produce one whole-shape chunk.

Verification

Full tests/inferers/test_zarr_avg_merger.py suite (24 tests) on Python 3.12 / torch 2.13.0:

zarr unpatched dev with this PR
3.0.0 passes 24 passed
3.2.0 passes 24 passed
3.3.0 20 errors / 5 failures 24 passed

Negative control: reverting only the merger.py change on zarr 3.3.0 fails 21 of 24.

zarr 2: not run locally, but both changes are structurally inert there — the mapping is gated on version_geq(zarr, "3.3.0"), and the fixture edits only touch configs selected when version_geq(zarr, "3.0.0"). CI's py3.10 job (zarr 2.18) exercises that path.

black, isort, and flake8 --max-line-length=120 clean on both changed files (the one E501 in merger.py is pre-existing on dev, line 75).

Related: #8816 also touches ZarrAvgMerger.__init__ (tmpdir GC on zarr v3) — different bug, no overlap in changed lines, but flagging it since both land in the same constructor.

Types of changes

  • Non-breaking change (fix or new feature that would not break existing functionality).
  • Breaking change (fix or new feature that would cause existing functionality to change).
  • New tests added to cover the changes.
  • Integration tests passed locally by running ./runtests.sh -f -u --net --coverage.
  • Quick tests passed locally by running ./runtests.sh --quick --unittests --disttests.
  • In-line docstrings updated.
  • Documentation updated, tested make html command in the docs/ folder.

On the unchecked test boxes: I ran the affected suite in full across three zarr versions rather than the whole runtests.sh matrix, since the change is confined to ZarrAvgMerger. Happy to run either in full if wanted before merge.

zarr 3.3 removed boolean chunk arguments, so ZarrAvgMerger's documented
default chunks=True raised ValueError on every construction. Map True to
None (zarr 3.3's spelling of auto-chunking) when zarr >= 3.3.0; the
substitution is version-gated because on zarr 3.0 None means a single
whole-shape chunk, not auto-chunking. chunks=False and explicit shapes
still work on every version and pass through unchanged.

zarr 3.3 also requires the bytes codec to specify endianness for
multi-byte dtypes, so the test fixtures' {"name": "bytes",
"configuration": {}} configs now set endian little; this form is
accepted from zarr 3.0 on.

Adds a regression test asserting the default produces auto-chunking
rather than one whole-shape chunk.

Verified with the full test_zarr_avg_merger suite on zarr 3.0.0, 3.2.0
and 3.3.0. The zarr 2 paths are untouched: the mapping is gated on the
zarr version, and the fixture change only affects v3-selected configs.

Signed-off-by: Dante Rigo <dhillrigo@gmail.com>
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ZarrAvgMerger now maps chunks=True to None for zarr 3.3 and newer. Older zarr versions and other chunk values retain existing behavior. Tests update zarr v3 bytes codec settings and verify automatic chunking for a (4096, 4096) output.

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value_codecs=[
{"name": "bytes", "configuration": {"endian": "little"}},
{"name": "blosc", "configuration": {"cname": "zstd"}},
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the value and count codec cases.

TEST_CASE_19_VALUE_CODECS and TEST_CASE_20_COUNT_CODECS are not included in ALL_TESTS. The parameterized test therefore does not execute the two changed codec configurations. Add zarr v3-only coverage for both cases.

As per path instructions, new or modified definitions must be covered by existing or new unit tests.

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In `@tests/inferers/test_zarr_avg_merger.py` around lines 301 - 304, Add Zarr
v3-only entries for TEST_CASE_19_VALUE_CODECS and TEST_CASE_20_COUNT_CODECS to
ALL_TESTS so the parameterized tests execute both changed codec configurations,
covering the value and count codec definitions.

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