From 5b54ba321915885877111a8bc1ec139b37e58363 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Perryman <michael.d.perryman@usace.army.mil>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:26:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix for reading text records.

---
 pyproject.toml         | 2 +-
 setup.cfg              | 2 +-
 src/hecdss/__init__.py | 1 +
 src/hecdss/hecdss.py   | 5 +++--
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a2401a4..1b196ee 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "hec-dss-python"
-version = "0.1.26"
+version = "0.1.28"
 description = "Python wrapper for the HEC-DSS file database C library."
 authors = ["Hydrologic Engineering Center"]
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index d63384b..38066a4 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = hecdss
-version = 0.1.27
+version = 0.1.28
 author = Hydrologic Engineering Center
 author_email =hec.dss@usace.army.mil
 description = Python wrapper for the HEC-DSS file database C library.
diff --git a/src/hecdss/__init__.py b/src/hecdss/__init__.py
index 04673ef..65c231e 100644
--- a/src/hecdss/__init__.py
+++ b/src/hecdss/__init__.py
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@
 from hecdss.regular_timeseries import RegularTimeSeries
 from hecdss.array_container import ArrayContainer
 from hecdss.paired_data import PairedData
+from hecdss.text import Text
 
diff --git a/src/hecdss/hecdss.py b/src/hecdss/hecdss.py
index a3a2d7f..de50b43 100644
--- a/src/hecdss/hecdss.py
+++ b/src/hecdss/hecdss.py
@@ -138,15 +138,16 @@ def _get_text(self, pathname: str):
         textLength = 1024
 
 
-        BUFFER_TOO_SMALL = -1
+        BUFFER_TOO_SMALL = -17
         textArray = []
         status = self._native.hec_dss_textRetrieve(pathname, textArray, textLength)
         while status == BUFFER_TOO_SMALL:
             textLength *= 2
-            status = self._native.hec_dss_textRetrieve(pathname, textArray, textLength)
             if textLength > 2*1048576:  # 2 MB
                 print(f"Text record too large to read from '{pathname}'")
                 return None
+            textArray = [] # otherwise we get an entry for each attempt
+            status = self._native.hec_dss_textRetrieve(pathname, textArray, textLength)
 
         if status != 0:
             print(f"Error reading text from '{pathname}'")

From f79f4be4f55a235c619688c7b3caf9b5d6a08cf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl Tarbet <ktarbet@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:02:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] update dss library (#110)

---
 src/hecdss/download_hecdss.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/hecdss/download_hecdss.py b/src/hecdss/download_hecdss.py
index cc3c388..ad07c1b 100644
--- a/src/hecdss/download_hecdss.py
+++ b/src/hecdss/download_hecdss.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def download_and_unzip(url, zip_file, destination_dir):
         print(f"Failed to download zip file. Status code: {response.status_code}")
 
 base_url = "https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/nexus/repository/maven-public/mil/army/usace/hec/hecdss/"
-version = "7-IW-3"
+version = "7-IW-4"
 
 destination_dir = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath("lib")
 zip_url = f"{base_url}{version}-win-x86_64/hecdss-{version}-win-x86_64.zip"