Default to a RemoteStore for (some) string `StoreLike`

[TomAugspurger]

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v3

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Description

Zarr v2 users (either direct, or indirect through libraries like xarray) probably relied on the ability to pass an fsspec URI to zarr.open and have it work with a remote file system. Is there any tolerance for trying to interpret some string store arguments as an argument to RemoteStore rather than LocalFile? For example:

zarr.open_group("s3://hrrrzarr")

would be interpreted as

zarr.open_group(zarr.store.RemoteStore("s3://hrrrzarr"))

We'd also need to expose storage_options in all the API endpoints that create a Store / StorePath from user input, to allow customizing the filesystem that's created.

Steps to reproduce

import zarr

g = zarr.open_group(store="s3://hrrrzarr", storage_options={"anon": False})

Additional output

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[d-v-b]

Is there any tolerance for trying to interpret some string store arguments as an argument to RemoteStore rather than LocalFile? For example:

Definitely! In the short term, we should copy what v2 was doing, modulo the storage classes. Longer term, I would like to consider a few things in this direction:

• expose a URI attribute on stores, groups and arrays.
• set up a scheme: store class registry