Should there be thin wrappers like read_netcdf, read_zarr, etc?

[ahuang11]

I was semi-surprised that there are only methods to read from tables:

And to read gridded formats, I needed to open with xarray first, then convert to XarrayContext using from_dataset

import xarray as xr
from metpy.cbook import get_test_data
from xarray_sql import XarrayContext

ds = xr.open_dataset(get_test_data('irma_gfs_example.nc', False))
XarrayContext().from_dataset(ds)

Desired:

from metpy.cbook import get_test_data
from xarray_sql import XarrayContext

XarrayContext.read_netcdf(get_test_data('irma_gfs_example.nc', False))

If desired, I can help contribute a PR.

[alxmrs]

@ahuang11 would it be alright if @dfang843 takes this issue on? I think this is a great idea.

[ahuang11]

Definitely!