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Addresses #256: the metadata classes have carried multiscales > coordinateTransformations since 0.5, the reader parses it, and nothing exposed could write one.

A displacements store that only types its component axis is labelled, not applicable: a reader sees what the channels are, but no transformation says between which coordinate systems the field maps, so nothing can apply it. Producing the declaration today means composing by hand — reach into v06.zarr_metadata (not exported), pick the right one of two classes named Displacements, build the entry and the coordinate system, validate axis order, component count and references oneself. The composition works — a downstream engine ships it, verified by this package's own reader rebuilding an exact ITK transform from the store — which is the argument that it should be one validated call rather than every consumer's private ritual.

A silent drop, first

While building that composition, a second thing turned up, and it is the one that matters more.

to_version converts the model to the target version's shape before writing, and a shape with no coordinateTransformations field dropped the transforms in that conversion: the store was written, the entry was gone, and the only witness was a reader finding None where a transform was declared. Worse, the typed component axis survives the trip, so what comes out is precisely the ambiguous labelled-but-not-applicable store. This hits an RFC-5 entry written at 0.4 (the entry cannot exist before 0.6) and also the multiscale-level scale/translation that 0.4 itself allows but this writer does not serialize. Both are now refused by name instead of lost; the gate runs on the source metadata, where the transforms still are.

What replaces the ritual

declare_field_transform(multiscales, ...) — functional, additive (appends to existing transformations, mutates nothing), validated with the same code the writer and reader trust (validate_transform, the axis rules the read side enforces).

Two layouts, one signature:

  • standalone (the defaults): the field is the artifact — a registration's output. The transform is declared on the field's own multiscales, a spatial coordinate system is derived from its axes, and the field maps it onto itself through its own level-0 array.
  • beside the image (path + input_system/output_system): the entry on the image's multiscales, referencing its declared systems, pointing at the field's array. With path the field is elsewhere, so deriving a system here would declare a transform over the wrong space: the names are required, and the docs example that hand-built this entry now calls this instead.

The model classes a caller touches (Displacements, Coordinates, CoordinateSystem, CoordinateSystemIdentifier) are exported at the top level; the v06 Scale, Translation, Identity, Axis stay module-qualified because the v04 model already exports those names.

Combined with metadata_only=True and open_array, this closes the write-side story that #695 opens on the read side: a field larger than memory is declared, created, and filled region by region, never assembled. The new docs section is that recipe.

Proven

  • The declared store, written at 0.6 and read back, is applicable by this package's own reader with no other information: the round-trip test rebuilds a native itk.DisplacementFieldTransform from the store alone and checks the points it moves against the field's values to 1e-12.
  • The streamed store is the whole-array store: same entry, same voxels (test_a_declared_store_streams_region_by_region).
  • Full suite: 1464 passed, 3 skipped. Lint clean.

Open questions

  1. The standalone default declares one system mapped onto itself. For a registration's total field, a fixed/moving pair of identical spatial systems may be the more faithful RFC-5 modeling; the API accepts either (input_system/output_system), only the default is at stake.
  2. Should to_multiscales grow a convenience parameter for the standalone case, or is the post-hoc call the right single spelling? (Post-hoc is required regardless for the beside-image layout, whose entry lives on a different multiscales than the field's builder.)
  3. The v06/v04 name collisions (Scale, Translation, Identity, Axis) keep half the v06 model module-qualified. A namespaced export would finish the job; out of scope here.

Follow-up

The per-block value conversion (branch feat/py-convert-field-block, on top of #695): the rotation, positional shift and component permutation inside the field converters are per-voxel given the block's grid position, so the whole-field converters and #695's per-window read path can share one primitive — and an ITK-ordered producer converts each region as it writes it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added validated APIs for declaring displacement and coordinate field transformations on standalone or linked NGFF fields.
    • Enabled incremental standalone field creation with streaming region writes and OME-Zarr v0.6 metadata.
    • Exposed transformation helpers publicly in Python and TypeScript.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Unsupported top-level transformations now raise an error instead of being silently dropped.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded guidance and examples for standalone fields, interpolation, component ordering, and coordinate-system declarations.

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Adds declare_field_transform for RFC-5 displacement and coordinate fields in Python and TypeScript. The APIs validate field layouts and coordinate systems, support standalone and external fields, expose public exports, document regional writes, and reject unsupported transformations during version conversion.

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Python field declaration API
py/ngff_zarr/declare_field_transform.py, py/ngff_zarr/__init__.py, py/test/test_declare_field_transform.py
Adds Python declaration logic, coordinate-system handling, immutable metadata updates, public exports, and tests for reconstruction, validation, external paths, and regional writes.
TypeScript field declaration API
ts/src/utils/declare_field_transform.ts, ts/src/mod.ts, ts/test/declare_field_transform_test.ts
Adds typed declaration options, field and coordinate-system validation, immutable updates, public exports, and tests for standalone and linked fields.
Version conversion and usage documentation
py/ngff_zarr/to_ngff_zarr.py, py/test/test_ngff_validation.py, docs/rfc5.md, docs/typescript.md
Raises ValueError when conversion would discard unsupported transformations. Documents standalone storage, regional writes, and image-associated declarations.

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This PR adds a convenient field-transform declaration API, but the current implementation can still produce invalid RFC-5 metadata when coordinate-system dimensions or transform vector lengths do not match the image axes. Merge should wait for those validations to be added or for the owners to explicitly accept the bounded correctness risk.

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  Caller->>open_array: create metadata-only field store
  Caller->>open_array: write field regions
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Nice!!

One minor formatting comment, and a comment for a broader API improvement, could come here or another PR.

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Addresses the review on #708.

An axis type was a bare string on both sides of the API: the parameter
that carries it, and the documentation that shows one being set. RFC-3
lets an axis carry any string, so the set the specification defines was
nowhere written down and nothing offered it for completion.

AxisType names that set, and FieldTransformType the two field
transformations declare_field_transform chooses between, the parameter
the review points at. Both are string enums, so a plain string still
passes and what reaches the store is unchanged; the annotations read
AxisType | str the way the TypeScript port's AxisType already unions the
named set with any string. The component-type table now maps one to the
other, which is what ties the transformation to the axis type it
requires.

The docstring's parameter blocks are separated by a blank line, and the
RFC-5 page sets its axis types through the enum.

Python 1488 passed, prek clean.

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@vboussot needs rebase

to_version carries over the transforms the target model can express -- 0.4
keeps its own scale/translation form -- and drops the rest, an RFC-5 entry
written at 0.4 among them. Dropping is silent: the store is written, the entry
is gone, and the only witness is a reader finding None where a transform was
declared. What the conversion kept is now compared with what was declared, and
a loss is refused by name; a store whose transforms the version does carry is
written exactly as before.
A field store that only types its component axis is labelled, not applicable:
no transformation says between which coordinate systems the field maps.
Building the displacements entry by hand meant reaching into the version
metadata model and validating axis order, component count and system
references oneself. declare_field_transform is that composition in one
validated call, functional and additive: the standalone store (a spatial
system derived from the field's own axes, mapped onto itself through its
level-0 array) by default, the field-beside-image layout when path and the
system names are given.

The model classes a caller touches (Displacements, Coordinates,
CoordinateSystem, CoordinateSystemIdentifier) are exported at the top level;
the v06 Scale, Translation, Identity and Axis stay module-qualified because
the v04 model already exports those names.

Declared, written at 0.6 and read back, the store is applicable by this
package's own reader: the round-trip test rebuilds a native ITK transform
from the store alone and checks the points it moves against the field's
values.
The new section is the recipe declare_field_transform exists for: declare the
field on its own multiscales, create the arrays with metadata_only=True, fill
them through open_array, so a field larger than memory is never assembled.
The image-and-field store example drops its hand-built entry for the same
call.
The TypeScript half of the Python function: the same two layouts, the same
refusals, the same names. A field store that only types its component axis is
labelled, not applicable, in either language, and the package models the
`Displacements` and `Coordinates` types on both sides -- the entry that
references a field was the one thing only Python could build.

The both-or-neither rule on the system names is written as a narrowing rather
than a guard beside it, so the entry's two references are typed as the strings
they are under `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`.
Addresses the review on #708.

An axis type was a bare string on both sides of the API: the parameter
that carries it, and the documentation that shows one being set. RFC-3
lets an axis carry any string, so the set the specification defines was
nowhere written down and nothing offered it for completion.

AxisType names that set, and FieldTransformType the two field
transformations declare_field_transform chooses between, the parameter
the review points at. Both are string enums, so a plain string still
passes and what reaches the store is unchanged; the annotations read
AxisType | str the way the TypeScript port's AxisType already unions the
named set with any string. The component-type table now maps one to the
other, which is what ties the transformation to the axis type it
requires.

The docstring's parameter blocks are separated by a blank line, and the
RFC-5 page sets its axis types through the enum.

Python 1488 passed, prek clean.
@vboussot
vboussot force-pushed the feat/py-declare-field-transform branch from fa7049b to 6cdb8a9 Compare September 2, 2026 22:34
@thewtex
thewtex merged commit d34c0d8 into main Sep 3, 2026
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thewtex deleted the feat/py-declare-field-transform branch September 3, 2026 15:48
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