From 8f2312b3ebe633606535cde1acd7db179ae0e75f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bo Zhang <bozhang@sci.utah.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:33:15 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix dspaces DATATYPE translation in get()

---
 src/dspaces-client.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/dspaces-client.c b/src/dspaces-client.c
index 0dded3c2..f733e3e2 100644
--- a/src/dspaces-client.c
+++ b/src/dspaces-client.c
@@ -1672,7 +1672,12 @@ static void fill_odsc(dspaces_client_t client, const char *var_name,
     odsc->version = ver;
     memset(odsc->owner, 0, sizeof(odsc->owner));
     odsc->st = st;
-    odsc->size = elem_size;
+    if(elem_size < 0) {
+        odsc->type = elem_size;
+        odsc->size = type_to_size(elem_size);
+    } else {
+        odsc->size = elem_size;
+    }
     odsc->bb.num_dims = ndim;
 
     memset(odsc->bb.lb.c, 0, sizeof(uint64_t) * BBOX_MAX_NDIM);