fix(ts): order generated axes time, then channel, then space - #664
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`toMultiscales` emitted the caller's dims verbatim, so a channel-last input such as `(z, y, c, x)` produced metadata whose axis order the OME-Zarr specification forbids: axes are ordered by type, time then channel then space. ITK component images and the 4-D/5-D default dims all yield channel-last layouts, so the pipeline reaches that state without the caller asking for it. `canonicalAxisOrder` reorders the axes and moves the data with them, matching the Python port's `_canonical_axis_order`. An image whose dims fall outside `(t, c, z, y, x)` is returned untouched: an axis model that was not expressible before RFC-3 carries no spec ordering to normalize to. A positional `chunks` array indexes the caller's dims, so it follows them through the reordering. Where Python transposes lazily through dask, this reads the array and writes the permuted buffer into a new in-memory zarr array; the downsampling path materializes the image anyway. The transposition helpers move to `utils/transpose.ts`, which carries no toolkit dependency, so `to_multiscales-shared.ts` can reach them without importing `itk-wasm`. The two channel-last downsampling tests now assert what their Python twins in `test_to_ngff_zarr_itkwasm.py` already assert.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds shared typed-array transposition utilities and normalizes supported image dimensions to OME-Zarr order during ChangesCanonical axis normalization
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ts/test/canonical_axis_order_test.ts (2)
79-79: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueWrap the long
Deno.testcalls.These declarations exceed the 80-character limit. Put the test name and callback on separate lines.
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63-72: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winMake the expected data independent from
calculateStride.The test uses
calculateStridefromtranspose.ts, whichtransposeArrayalso uses. Calculate the fixed row-major source offset directly so this test detects stride defects.Proposed test change
-import { calculateStride } from "../src/utils/transpose.ts"; ... - const sourceStride = calculateStride(shape); ... - expected[target] = y * sourceStride[0] + x * sourceStride[1] + - c * sourceStride[2]; + expected[target] = (y * shape[1] + x) * shape[2] + c;🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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99-103: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd coverage for positional chunk remapping.
The provided tests use scalar
chunksvalues only. Add a test with distinct positional chunk values and assert that the downsampler receives them in canonical dimension order. This protects the contract in Lines 101-103.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/typescript.md`:
- Around line 467-471: Replace the incorrect “channel-last” terminology with
“non-canonical” for the `(z, y, c, x)` example in docs/typescript.md lines
467-471 and for both occurrences in ts/test/to_multiscales_itkwasm_test.ts lines
62-63 and 139-140; do not change the axis-reordering behavior.
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In `@ts/src/process/to_multiscales-shared.ts`:
- Around line 99-103: Add a focused test covering the positional requestedChunks
array in the downsampling path, using distinct values per input dimension and
asserting that the downsampler receives those values reordered into canonical
image.dims order. Keep existing scalar and dim-keyed coverage unchanged, and
target the behavior implemented by the _chunks remapping expression.
In `@ts/test/canonical_axis_order_test.ts`:
- Line 79: Reformat the affected Deno.test declarations in the
canonicalAxisOrder tests so the test name and callback appear on separate lines,
keeping each declaration within the 80-character limit and leaving test behavior
unchanged.
- Around line 63-72: Update the expected-data construction in the canonical
axis-order test to remove its dependency on calculateStride. Compute each source
offset directly from the original shape using fixed row-major indexing, while
preserving the existing permutation, target indexing, and expected values.
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`componentTypeOf` fell through to `float32` for the `bigint` arrays, so reordering an `int64` or `uint64` image allocated a `Float32Array` and threw on the first element. It now names those two types and allocates their constructors; `transposeArray` returns the caller's array type, so the ITK paths, which have no 64-bit component type, stay narrowed. The reordering read the whole source and held a full transposed buffer beside the compressed copy, which for a metadata-only request over a remote store meant several times the image in memory. It now walks the source chunk grid, so the region read and the transposed buffer are both chunk-sized. Reading the whole image is inherent to the eager copy and is documented. `(z, y, c, x)` does not place `c` last, so the docs and test comments call such a layout non-canonical.
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80-90: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftDo not claim constant-memory conversion.
storeretains every generated Zarr chunk. Output storage still grows with the full image. An output larger than available memory can still exhaust memory.Accept a caller-provided persistent store, or state that only temporary source-buffer memory is chunk-bounded.
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ts/test/canonical_axis_order_test.ts (1)
151-174: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExercise a partial edge chunk.
The fixture divides exactly by its chunk shape. It does not test the edge-chunk path where
blockShapeis smaller thansourceChunks.Use at least one non-divisible dimension. This verifies the boundary slices and transposed target shape.
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In `@ts/src/utils/axis_order.ts`:
- Around line 80-90: Update the conversion flow around the store and
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in-memory store retains all generated chunks. Prefer accepting and using a
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Ports #623 to TypeScript, as raised in #611.
toMultiscalesemitted the caller's dims verbatim. OME-Zarr orders axes bytype, time then channel then space, so a channel-last input produced metadata
whose axis order the specification forbids:
That state is reachable without the caller asking for it: ITK component images
and the 4-D/5-D default dims all yield channel-last layouts. The Python port
normalizes them in
to_multiscales; this port did not, so the same input gavespec-ordered metadata in one language and not the other.
The change
canonicalAxisOrderreorders the axes to(t, c, z, y, x)and moves the datawith them, mirroring
py/ngff_zarr/methods/_support.py:An image whose dims fall outside that vocabulary is returned untouched: an
axis model that was not expressible before RFC-3 carries no spec ordering to
normalize to. A positional
chunksarray indexes the caller's dims, so itfollows them through the reordering; the dim-keyed and scalar forms need no
change.
Where Python transposes lazily through dask, this reads the array and writes
the permuted buffer into a new in-memory zarr array. The downsampling path
materializes the image anyway, so this adds a copy only on the fallback path
that skips downsampling.
Layering
to_multiscales-shared.tstakesdownsampleItkWasmas a parameter preciselyso it does not import
itk-wasm. The transposition helpers it now needs movedout of
methods/itkwasm-shared.tsintoutils/transpose.ts, which carries notoolkit dependency.
transposeArrayandcalculateStrideare unchanged andstill re-exported from their old module;
getItkComponentTypebecomescomponentTypeOf, and had no callers outside that file.Tests
canonical_axis_order_test.tscovers the four cases: a channel-last input isreordered, the data follows the axes (compared against an independently
computed transpose, so a relabelling that left the buffer alone would fail),
an already-ordered input is returned identically, and a non-canonical
vocabulary is left alone. A fifth drives the whole pipeline and asserts the
generated axes.
downsample zycxanddownsample tzycxasserted the unordered output. Theynow assert what their Python twins in
test_to_ngff_zarr_itkwasm.pyalreadyassert.
557 passed, 0 failed.
One thing found, not fixed here
toNgffImagecreates its zarr array withdata_type: "float32"whilepreserving the caller's typed array, then writes that buffer through a
as Float32Arraycast. AUint8Arrayinput is reinterpreted byte by byte:24 bytes become 6 float32 values and 18 zeros. Several existing tests pass
Uint8Arrayand assert only shapes, so nothing catches it. Worth its ownissue.
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t,c,z,y,x).Documentation
toMultiscales()documentation to describe axis normalization and non-canonical input handling.Tests