NWBIO

[bendichter]

Feature Request

I would like an NWBIO function that takes an NWB of any backend, automatically determines the backend, and calls the proper NWB<backend>IO class (currently only NWBHDF5IO is available. This would allow us to create backend-agnostic code for reading from a file path, i.e.

with NWBIO('path/to/file', 'r') as io:
    io.read()

This came up as a need in our collaboration with CaImAn.

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[bendichter]

Superseded by hdmf-dev/hdmf#875