HDF5: Delete and re-create attribute when overwriting with diff. type #1697
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Seen in a file that was originally create with
h5pyand the opened in R/W-mode with openPMD-api. Since h5py and openPMD-api apparently use different vec-string types, this leads to corrupted files.Since we do support attributes with multiple possible types, the type of an existing attribute should be checked before reuse.
TODO: