[Paraview] defining new reader

[Andy Bauer]

Hi Mark,

I can help you get your reader integrated into VTK/ParaView.  I think the
test should at least have a cell of each type that you want to import into
VTK as well as point data and cell data if it has cell data with an array
with both 1 and 3 components.  I would think that a single test should be
sufficient if it covers all of this.  The important thing is that if people
make changes to the reader that we are at least able to verify that it still
is able to read in your test grid.

Andy

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Mark Olesen <Mark.Olesen at faurecia.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 12:09 -0400, Andy Bauer wrote:
> > The test file to be read in shouldn't be too large so that the test
> > actually completes fairly quickly.  My best recommendation is to see
> > how other readers are being test.  What type of output does your
> > reader produce?
>
> It produces an UnstructuredGrid.
> Actually it's here if you're interested in taking a look:
> http://github.com/olesenm/VTK/blob/custom/IO/vtkProStarReader.h
> http://github.com/olesenm/VTK/blob/custom/IO/vtkProStarReader.cxx
>
> The xml layer is still on the Paraview side of things though:
>
> http://github.com/olesenm/ParaView/blob/custom/Servers/ServerManager/Resources/readers.xml
>
>
> I can easily whip up some small test files with various cell shapes
> (tet, polyhedral) etc, but I'm not not actually sure how this is
> supposed to be used to check that reader is working correctly.
>
> I would like to get it integrated though into paraview/vtk though.
> For CFD geometries (not results), it's a fairly simple, robust,
> ASCII-based format that covers all (linear) 2/3-D cell types.
>
>
> /mark
>
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