No need to defend against truncated string attributes from rhdf5.

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: alabaster.matrix
 Title: Load and Save Artifacts from File
-Version: 1.3.1
-Date: 2023-11-28
+Version: 1.3.2
+Date: 2023-11-30
 Authors@R: person("Aaron", "Lun", role=c("aut", "cre"), email="[email protected]")
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Description: 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Imports:
     DelayedArray (>= 0.27.2),
     S4Arrays,
     SparseArray,
-    rhdf5,
+    rhdf5 (>= 2.47.1),
     HDF5Array,
     Matrix,
     Rcpp

R/saveArray.R

@@ -61,14 +61,7 @@ NULL
     if (!is.null(optimized$placeholder)) {
         dhandle <- H5Dopen(ghandle, "data")
         on.exit(H5Dclose(dhandle), add=TRUE, after=FALSE)
-
-        # Patch until rhdf5::H5Awrite is fixed.
-        atype <- optimized$type
-        if (type(x) == "character") {
-            atype <- NULL
-        }
-
-        h5_write_attribute(dhandle, missingPlaceholderName, optimized$placeholder, type=atype, scalar=TRUE)
+        h5_write_attribute(dhandle, missingPlaceholderName, optimized$placeholder, type=optimized$type, scalar=TRUE)
     }
 
     save_names(ghandle, x, transpose=TRUE)