[Paraview-developers] Pipelinesource dataset type

[Reuter, Michael A.]

I placed the updatePipeline call just before the call to
createDataRepresentation and everything works now. Thanks! Would you
happen to understand why 3.10 didn't need that call or was it just my dumb
luck that it worked? :-)


M

On 2/21/12 10:37 AM, "Utkarsh Ayachit" <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

>I believe you're missing a call to this->origSrc->updatePipeline()
>before calling createDataRepresentation(...).
>
>Utkarsh
>
>On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Reuter, Michael A. <reuterma at ornl.gov>
>wrote:
>> Hi Utkarsh,
>>
>>        I'm attaching the source code for the plugin. Our call to create
>>the data
>> representation looks like:
>>
>> <code>
>>  // Show the data
>> pqDataRepresentation *drep =
>> builder->createDataRepresentation(this->origSrc->getOutputPort(0),
>> this->view);
>>
>> </code>
>>
>> Where this->origSrc is set via the active source after the load call to
>> the plugin and this->view is a pointer to our pqRenderView area in our
>> application.
>>
>> Let me know if you need to see anything else.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> M
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/20/12 9:54 AM, "Utkarsh Ayachit" <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>That should have worked, nothing has changed in that regard, as far as
>>>I remember. Can you  share the plugin code or any steps to reproduce?
>>>
>>>Utkarsh
>>>
>>>On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Reuter, Michael A. <reuterma at ornl.gov>
>>>wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                 I have a reader plugin that in 3.10 correctly reports
>>>>the
>>>> dataset type (VTK_UNSTRUCTURED_GRID) in a call to
>>>> pqObjectBuilder::createDataRepresentation via
>>>> vtkPVDataInformation::GetDataSetType during the pqView::canDisplay
>>>>check,
>>>> but in 3.12 that same function call returns ­1. This causes the
>>>>returned
>>>> pqDataRepresentation to be NULL. Is there something special that needs
>>>>to be
>>>> done by the plugin, either by C++ or XML, to register the correct
>>>>dataset
>>>> type in 3.12? I tried searching the mail archives, but I guess my
>>>>search
>>>> terms weren't good enough to find anything, so I apologize if I missed
>>>> something obvious.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> M
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Michael Reuter
>>>>
>>>> Data Analysis and Visualization Group
>>>>
>>>> Neutron Data Analysis and Visualization Division
>>>>
>>>> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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