Other changes needed for test

test/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -662,6 +662,10 @@ ADD_WRITER_TEST(NAME     cxwriter_ukvnamelist_surfacecloud
                 YAML     cxwriter_ukvnamelist_surfacecloud.yaml
                 NAMELIST ../../etc/ukv/cx/SurfaceCloud.nl
                 DATA     cx_ukvnamelist_surfacecloud.nc4 dummy.nc4)
+ADD_WRITER_TEST(NAME     cxwriter_ukvnamelist_surface
+                YAML     cxwriter_ukvnamelist_surface.yaml
+                NAMELIST ../../etc/ukv/cx/Surface.nl
+                DATA     cx_ukvnamelist_surface.nc4 dummy.nc4)
 
 ### Tests of auxiliary classes
 

test/testinput/cxwriter_ukvnamelist_surface.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+time window:
+  begin: 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z
+  end: 2018-01-01T01:00:00Z
+
+observations:
+  - obs space:
+      name: Surface
+      obsdatain:
+        engine:
+          type: H5File
+          obsfile: Data/dummy.nc4
+      simulated variables: [dummy]
+    geovals:
+      filename: Data/cx_ukvnamelist_surface.nc4
+    obs filters:
+    # Set the flag of observations with missing values to "pass": we want to check if these
+    # values are encoded correctly in the Cx file.
+    - filter: Reset Flags to Pass
+      flags_to_reset: [10, 15]  # missing, Hfailed
+    # Reject observation 3: we want to check if it is omitted from the Cx file, as expected.
+    - filter: Domain Check
+      where:
+      - variable:
+          name: MetaData/latitude
+        minvalue: 0.0
+    - filter: Cx Writer
+      namelist_directory: ../etc/ukv/cx
+      reject_obs_with_any_variable_failing_qc: true
+      general_mode: debug
+      IC_PLevels: 5
+    - filter: Cx Checker
+      expected_surface_variables: ["1","2","3","4","5","6","13"]
+      expected_upper_air_variables: ["1","3","4","5","11","29","30"]
+      expected_main_table_columns:
+      - # observation 3 is rejected by the tests above hence only 3 (1,2,4) columns
+        - ["17.10","27.10","57.10","67.10","37.10","47.10",
+        "7.10","1.10","1.20","1.30","81.10","81.20","81.30",
+        "91.10","91.20","91.30","11.10","11.20","11.30",
+        "41.10","41.20","41.30","21.10","21.20","21.30",
+        "31.10","31.20","31.30"] # column 1 - 1st observation
+        - ["**********","**********","**********","**********","**********","**********","**********",
+        "2.10","**********","2.30","82.10","**********","82.30","92.10","**********","92.30","12.10",
+        "**********","12.30","42.10","**********","42.30","22.10","**********","22.30","32.10","**********",
+        "32.30"]  # column 2 - 2nd observation
+        - ["17.40","27.40","57.40","67.40","37.40","47.40",
+        "7.40","4.10","4.20","4.30","84.10","84.20","84.30",
+        "94.10","94.20","94.30","14.10","14.20","14.30",
+        "44.10","44.20","44.30","24.10","24.20","24.30",
+        "34.10","34.20","34.30"] # column 3 - observation 4
+    HofX: ObsValue # just a placeholder -- not used, but needed to force calls to postFilter.
+    benchmarkFlag: 1000 # just to keep the ObsFilters test happy
+    flaggedBenchmark: 0