[Paraview-developers] Reading multiple files in parallel

[Moreland, Kenneth]

I think the key you are looking for is vtkAlgorithm::CAN_HANDLE_PIECE_REQUEST(), which you want to set to 1 to signify that you can provide multiple pieces. You might want to look at vtkmXMLPUnstructuredGridDataReader for an example.

If I remember correctly, this has recently been changed in VTK. It used to be that you would give the number of pieces you supported, but that functionality was not useful in practice and consequently readers reported that they could produce any number of pieces in order to be useful. Thus, the behavior was change to allow readers simply to report whether or not they support multiple pieces. Berk can probably provide more information.

-Ken

From: Paraview-developers [mailto:paraview-developers-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of sumeet kumar
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 12:58 PM
To: ParaView Developers <paraview-developers at paraview.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview-developers] Reading multiple files in parallel

Hello all,
I have a number of files which contains information about pieces of unstructured mesh. For example :-

t_2.h5.01.feioutput
t_2.h5.03.feioutput
t_2.h5.04.feioutput
t_2.h5.05.feioutput
t_2.h5.06.feioutput
t_2.h5.07.feioutput
t_2.h5.08.feioutput
t_2.h5.09.feioutput
t_2.h5.feioutput
My reader can read each file individually but I want to read them all in parallel so that I can visualize the whole model. I looked at the http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Writing_ParaView_Readers and followed the steps for unstructured mesh.
When I try to set the number of pieces in Request Information function as this

vtkInformation* Node_Mesh = outVec->GetInformationObject(0);
Node_Mesh->Set(vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PIECES(), 10);

I get the following error

error: ‘MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PIECES’ is not a member of ‘vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline’
  Node_Mesh->Set(vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PIECES(), 10);

Also, it would be highly appreciated if anyone could show/(send me link) me to a sample example.
Regards

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