Method Error with iscontiguous when nccreate is called

[wrongkindofdoctor]

Running the netcdf example using dictionaries to replace the deprecated curly brackets with Julia V1.0.2 produces the error
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching iscontiguous(::UnitRange{Int64})
This error occurs wit h Julia 1.0.2 on Rhel7, MacOS Mojave, and Windows 10 OS's

Script:

using NetCDF
filename   = "myfile.nc"
varname    = "var1"
attribs = Dict("units" => "mm/d", "data_min" => 0.0, "data_max" => 87.0)
nccreate(filename, varname, "x1", 11:20, "t", 20, Dict("units"=>"s"), atts=attribs)

Result:

ERROR: MethodError: no method matching iscontiguous(::UnitRange{Int64})
Closest candidates are:
  iscontiguous(::SubArray) at subarray.jl:286
  iscontiguous(::Type{#s57} where #s57<:(SubArray{T,N,P,I,true} where I<:Tuple{AbstractUnitRange,Vararg{Any,N} where N} where P where N where T)) at subarray.jl:288
  iscontiguous(::Type{#s57} where #s57<:SubArray) at subarray.jl:287
Stacktrace:
 [1] #putvar#31(::Array{Int64,1}, ::Array{Int64,1}, ::Function, ::NcVar{Int64,1,10}, ::UnitRange{Int64}) at /home/Jessica.Liptak/.julia/packages/NetCDF/61OwG/src/NetCDF.jl:437
 [2] (::getfield(NetCDF, Symbol("#kw##putvar")))(::NamedTuple{(:start, :count),Tuple{Array{Int64,1},Array{Int64,1}}}, ::typeof(NetCDF.putvar), ::NcVar{Int64,1,10}, ::UnitRange{Int64}) at ./none:0
 [3] #putvar#30(::Array{Int64,1}, ::Array{Int64,1}, ::Function, ::NcFile, ::String, ::UnitRange{Int64}) at /home/Jessica.Liptak/.julia/packages/NetCDF/61OwG/src/NetCDF.jl:421
 [4] putvar(::NcFile, ::String, ::UnitRange{Int64}) at /home/Jessica.Liptak/.julia/packages/NetCDF/61OwG/src/NetCDF.jl:421
 [5] #create#38(::Dict{Any,Any}, ::UInt16, ::Function, ::String, ::Array{NcVar,1}) at /home/Jessica.Liptak/.julia/packages/NetCDF/61OwG/src/NetCDF.jl:634
 [6] #create at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [7] #create#39(::Dict{Any,Any}, ::UInt16, ::Function, ::String, ::NcVar{Float64,2,6}) at /home/Jessica.Liptak/.julia/packages/NetCDF/61OwG/src/NetCDF.jl:641
 [8] (::getfield(NetCDF, Symbol("#kw##create")))(::NamedTuple{(:gatts, :mode),Tuple{Dict{Any,Any},UInt16}}, ::typeof(NetCDF.create), ::String, ::NcVar{Float64,2,6}) at ./none:0
 [9] #nccreate#51(::Dict{String,Any}, ::Dict{Any,Any}, ::Int64, ::Int64, ::UInt16, ::Tuple{Int64}, ::Function, ::String, ::String, ::String, ::Vararg{Any,N} where N) at /home/Jessica.Liptak/.julia/packages/NetCDF/61OwG/src/NetCDF.jl:920
 [10] (::getfield(NetCDF, Symbol("#kw##nccreate")))(::NamedTuple{(:atts,),Tuple{Dict{String,Any}}}, ::typeof(nccreate), ::String, ::String, ::String, ::Vararg{Any,N} where N) at ./none:0
 [11] top-level scope at none:0

[jarlela]

The problem here is the range 11:20, according to the function documentation this should be an array or a length (scalar). It should work if you replace the range by collect(11:20).

[visr]

Would be nice if this could be made to work with ranges, don't see why in this case it shouldn't.

And would be good to update the README examples to julia 1.0 syntax as well.

[wrongkindofdoctor]

Replacing the range with collect fixed the issue, and I was able to run the entire quickstart example. Thanks for your help!

[visr]

@wrongkindofdoctor I'm reopening. Glad that using collect as a workaround helped, but I'll reopen so we don't forget to fix it properly sometime.

The README syntax is now updated in #82.