From 8958fc7711d00751514808f109e4303eaa0e2602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Magland <jmagland@flatironinstitute.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 10:42:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] default object_codec_class -> JSON

---
 src/hdmf_zarr/backend.py | 2 +-
 src/hdmf_zarr/nwb.py     | 8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/hdmf_zarr/backend.py b/src/hdmf_zarr/backend.py
index 6ae27a25..a876022f 100644
--- a/src/hdmf_zarr/backend.py
+++ b/src/hdmf_zarr/backend.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def can_read(path):
              'default': None},
             {'name': 'object_codec_class', 'type': None,
              'doc': 'Set the numcodec object codec class to be used to encode objects.'
-                    'Use numcodecs.pickles.Pickle by default.',
+                    'Use numcodecs.JSON by default.',
              'default': None},
             {'name': 'storage_options', 'type': dict,
              'doc': 'Zarr storage options to read remote folders',
diff --git a/src/hdmf_zarr/nwb.py b/src/hdmf_zarr/nwb.py
index ed3d831c..9983c9b2 100644
--- a/src/hdmf_zarr/nwb.py
+++ b/src/hdmf_zarr/nwb.py
@@ -27,9 +27,10 @@ class NWBZarrIO(ZarrIO):
                  'doc': 'a path to a namespace, a TypeMap, or a list consisting paths  to namespaces and TypeMaps',
                  'default': None})
         def __init__(self, **kwargs):
-            path, mode, manager, extensions, load_namespaces, synchronizer, storage_options = \
+            path, mode, manager, extensions, load_namespaces, synchronizer, storage_options, object_codec_class = \
                 popargs('path', 'mode', 'manager', 'extensions',
-                        'load_namespaces', 'synchronizer', 'storage_options', kwargs)
+                        'load_namespaces', 'synchronizer', 'storage_options',
+                        'object_codec_class', kwargs)
             if load_namespaces:
                 if manager is not None:
                     warn("loading namespaces from file - ignoring 'manager'")
@@ -53,7 +54,8 @@ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
                                             manager=manager,
                                             mode=mode,
                                             synchronizer=synchronizer,
-                                            storage_options=storage_options)
+                                            storage_options=storage_options,
+                                            object_codec_class=object_codec_class)
 
         @docval({'name': 'src_io', 'type': HDMFIO, 'doc': 'the HDMFIO object for reading the data to export'},
                 {'name': 'nwbfile', 'type': 'NWBFile',