Use case: retrieving downtimes from a set of DMAP files. This takes a long time, especially for widebeam periods, since it is reading in the entirety of the DMAP stream. If it can skip over the data fields, only grabbing the metadata, then this process would be much quicker. It is a niche use case, but one that would be very handy. This would also be useful for, e.g., populating a database with the metadata.
Use case: retrieving downtimes from a set of DMAP files. This takes a long time, especially for widebeam periods, since it is reading in the entirety of the DMAP stream. If it can skip over the data fields, only grabbing the metadata, then this process would be much quicker. It is a niche use case, but one that would be very handy. This would also be useful for, e.g., populating a database with the metadata.