[Paraview] VisIt Database Bridge - Custom Plugin of VisIt Reader

Simon Su newsgroup4ssu at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 17:19:13 EDT 2011


Hi Robert,

It worked. adding the other file listed under my Files components="M" xml
block solve the error when the plugin manager tries to loader the plugin.

So I went and try to load my file in ParaView ... but this is what I got....


sms:/local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-paraview-loader-build> paraview
/local/home/tools/ParaView/ParaView-3.10.0/sms.Linux-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.x86_64.gcc-4.1.2.release/lib/paraview-3.10/paraview:
symbol lookup error:
/local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-paraview-loader-build/libVisItReaderGFDL.so:
undefined symbol: nc_inq_attlen


The question now is, where in ccmake can I specify for the plugin when it is
compiling to also include libnetcdf.a libhdf5_hl.a libhdf5.a libsz.a
libraries? Which variable do I add the libraries to? my ccmake only show
three variables when the toggle advanced mode is Off (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE,
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, and ParaView_DIR). When I turn on the advanced mode,
it gave me many many more... but going through the list, I am also not sure
which cmake variable to use.

vtkVisItReaderGFDL.cxx is attached and it with generated after I added the
second file into my CMakeLists.txt. I hope the file is not too big for the
list. if it is, it is also included at the bottom of this email.

thank you for your help

best,
-simon


/*=========================================================================

   Program: ParaView
   Module:    vtkVisItReaderGFDL.cxx

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#include "vtkVisItReaderGFDL.h"
#include "vtkInformation.h"
#include "vtkInformationVector.h"
#include "vtkObjectFactory.h"
#include "vtkMultiBlockDataSet.h"

#include "avtCM24FileFormat.h"
#include "avtDatabaseMetaData.h"
#include "avtMeshMetaData.h"
#include "avtVariableCache.h"

/* #undef ARG_VISIT_READER_USES_OPTIONS */

#ifdef ARG_VISIT_READER_USES_OPTIONS
#include ".h"
#endif

/* #undef VISIT_READER_USES_INTERFACE */
#ifdef VISIT_READER_USES_INTERFACE
#include "vtkVisItReaderGFDL.h"
#endif

vtkStandardNewMacro(vtkVisItReaderGFDL);

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
vtkVisItReaderGFDL::vtkVisItReaderGFDL()
{
  this->FileName = 0;
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
vtkVisItReaderGFDL::~vtkVisItReaderGFDL()
{
  this->SetFileName(0);
}

#ifdef VISIT_READER_USES_INTERFACE
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
int vtkVisItReaderGFDL::CanReadFile(const char *fname)
{
  int valid = 0;
  try
    {
    valid = vtkVisItReaderGFDL::;
    }
  catch(...){}
  return valid;
}
#endif

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
bool vtkVisItReaderGFDL::InitializeAVTReader(  const int& timestep  )
{
 if (!this->MetaData)
    {
    this->MetaData = new avtDatabaseMetaData( );
    }

  if (!this->Cache)
    {
    this->Cache = new avtVariableCache( );
    }

  if (!this->AvtFile)
    {
    try
      {
#ifdef ARG_VISIT_READER_USES_OPTIONS
       *options =
        new ();
      this->AvtFile = new avtCM24FileFormat(
        this->FileName, options->GetReadOptions() );
      delete options;
#else
      this->AvtFile = new avtCM24FileFormat(this->FileName);
#endif
      }
    catch(...)
      {
      this->AvtFile = NULL;
      return false;
      }
    avtCM24FileFormat *file = dynamic_cast<avtCM24FileFormat*>
      (this->AvtFile);
    if ( file )
      {
      //we have to make sure the visit reader populates its cache
      //before activating a time step
      try
        {
        file->SetCache( this->Cache );
        file->ActivateTimestep(timestep);

        //only fill database after choosing timestep to activate
        file->SetDatabaseMetaData( this->MetaData, timestep );
        }
      catch(...)
        {
        return false;
        }
      }
    else
      {
      return false;
      }
    }

  return true;
}



//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
void vtkVisItReaderGFDL::PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent)
{
  this->Superclass::PrintSelf(os, indent);
}






On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Robert Maynard
<robert.maynard at kitware.com>wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> You do not need to modify the avt file or add the revision macro as that is
> not the problem you are currently facing. I would try reverting your avt
> file to its original content, adding all the files listed in the Files
> components="M" xml block to your SOURCES list, and adding the plugin build
> folder to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Also would you be able to send me the contents of the vtkVisItReaderGFDL.cxx
> from your build directory and I will confirm the automatic wrapping is
> working properly.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Simon Su <newsgroup4ssu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> I inferred a CMakeLists.txt from the wiki page
>>
>>
>> ================ CMakeLists.txt for the plugin
>>
>> PROJECT(VisItReaderGFDL)
>>
>> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
>>
>> FIND_PACKAGE(ParaView REQUIRED)
>> INCLUDE(${PARAVIEW_USE_FILE})
>>
>> SET(SOURCES
>>  avtCM24FileFormat.C
>>  )
>>
>> ADD_VISIT_PLUGIN_READER(VisItReaderGFDL "1.0"
>>   VISIT_READER_NAME "avtCM24FileFormat"
>>   VISIT_READER_TYPE "MTSD"
>>   VISIT_READER_FILE_PATTERN "nc"
>>   SERVER_SOURCES ${SOURCES}
>>   )
>>
>> TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(VisItReaderGFDL vtkVisItAVTAlgorithms)
>> ============================
>>
>> I then placed the .C and .h files in the same directory
>> sms:/local/home/build/paraview-plugin> ls -alF gfdl-paraview-loader
>> total 112
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 sms t  4096 Apr 11 14:53 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x 5 sms t  4096 Apr 11 14:20 ../
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t 87958 Apr 11 12:51 avtCM24FileFormat.C
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  7311 Apr 11 14:25 avtCM24FileFormat.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t   404 Apr 11 13:02 CMakeLists.txt
>>
>>
>> Then in the build directory, I did a ccmake and entered the right text for
>> ParaView_DIR variable and I got this after configure/generate/make
>>
>> sms:/local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-paraview-loader-build> ls -alF
>> total 228
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 sms t  4096 Apr 11 14:25 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x 5 sms t  4096 Apr 11 14:20 ../
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t 42197 Apr 11 14:24 CMakeCache.txt
>> drwxr-xr-x 6 sms t  4096 Apr 11 14:25 CMakeFiles/
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  1691 Apr 11 14:24 cmake_install.cmake
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 sms t 74174 Apr 11 14:25 libVisItReaderGFDL.so*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t 12258 Apr 11 14:24 Makefile
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  2685 Apr 11 14:24 moc_VisItReaderGFDL_Plugin.cxx
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  3376 Apr 11 14:24 qrc_VisItReaderGFDL.cxx
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t   578 Apr 11 14:24 VisItReaderGFDLInit.cxx
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  4308 Apr 11 14:24 VisItReaderGFDL_Plugin.cxx
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  3809 Apr 11 14:24 VisItReaderGFDL_Plugin.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t   163 Apr 11 14:24 VisItReaderGFDL.qrc
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  1045 Apr 11 14:24 vtkSMVisItReaderGFDLInstantiator.cxx
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t   464 Apr 11 14:24 vtkSMVisItReaderGFDLInstantiator.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  5473 Apr 11 14:24 vtkSMXML_VisItReaderGFDL.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  4705 Apr 11 14:24 vtkVisItReaderGFDLClientServer.cxx
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  4025 Apr 11 14:24 vtkVisItReaderGFDL.cxx
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  1740 Apr 11 14:24 vtkVisItReaderGFDLExport.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t   151 Apr 11 14:24 vtkVisItReaderGFDLGUI.xml
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  2194 Apr 11 14:24 vtkVisItReaderGFDL.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 sms t  4169 Apr 11 14:24 vtkVisItReaderGFDLSM.xml
>>
>>
>> however, loading the plugin using plugin manager gui resulted in an error
>>
>> Cannot load library
>> /local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-paraview-loader-build/libVisItReaderGFDL.so:
>> (/local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-paraview-loader-build/libVisItReaderGFDL.so:
>> undefined symbol: _ZTI17avtCM24FileFormat)
>>
>> then from your plugin wiki page, I added the following line into my
>> avtCM24FileFormat.h file
>>
>> vtkCxxRevisionMacro(VisItReaderGFDL, "$Revision$");
>>
>> but when I compile, I get
>>
>> sms:/local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-paraview-loader-build> make
>> [  9%] Generating moc_VisItReaderGFDL_Plugin.cxx
>> [ 18%] Generating vtkVisItReaderGFDLClientServer.cxx
>> [ 27%] Generating qrc_VisItReaderGFDL.cxx
>> [ 36%] Generating vtkSMXML_VisItReaderGFDL.h
>> -- Generate module: vtkVisItReaderGFDLSM
>> [ 45%] Building CXX object
>> CMakeFiles/VisItReaderGFDL.dir/qrc_VisItReaderGFDL.cxx.o
>> [ 54%] Building CXX object
>> CMakeFiles/VisItReaderGFDL.dir/vtkVisItReaderGFDL.cxx.o
>> /local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-paraview-loader/avtCM24FileFormat.h:45:
>> error: 'VisItReaderGFDL' has not been declared
>> /local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-paraview-loader/avtCM24FileFormat.h:
>> In function 'void CollectRevisions(std::ostream&)':
>> /local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-paraview-loader/avtCM24FileFormat.h:45:
>> error: invalid use of 'this' in non-member function
>> /local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-paraview-loader/avtCM24FileFormat.h:45:
>> error: 'Superclass' has not been declared
>> make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/VisItReaderGFDL.dir/vtkVisItReaderGFDL.cxx.o]
>> Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/VisItReaderGFDL.dir/all] Error 2
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> and actually, my plugin code also depend on both netcdf and hdf5 library
>> which is specified in my VisIt xml file
>>
>> sms:/local/home/build/paraview-plugin/gfdl-visit-load> cat CM24.xml
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>>   <Plugin name="CM24" type="database" label="NetCDF CM2.4" version="1.0"
>> enabled="true" mdspecificcode="false" engspecificcode="false"
>> onlyengine="false" noengine="false" dbtype="MTSD" haswriter="false"
>> hasoptions="false">
>>     <CXXFLAGS>
>>
>> -I/net/sms/tools/VisIt/VisIt-2.2.1/sms.Linux-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.x86_64.gcc-4.1.2.release/current/linux-x86_64/include/netcdf
>>       -Wno-deprecated
>>     </CXXFLAGS>
>>     <LIBS>
>>
>> /local/home/tools/VisIt/VisIt-2.2.1/sms.Linux-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.x86_64.gcc-4.1.2.release/current/linux-x86_64/archives/libnetcdf.a
>>
>> /local/home/tools/VisIt/VisIt-2.2.1/sms.Linux-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.x86_64.gcc-4.1.2.release/current/linux-x86_64/lib/libhdf5_hl.a
>>
>> /local/home/tools/VisIt/VisIt-2.2.1/sms.Linux-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.x86_64.gcc-4.1.2.release/current/linux-x86_64/lib/libhdf5.a
>>
>> /local/home/tools/VisIt/VisIt-2.2.1/sms.Linux-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.x86_64.gcc-4.1.2.release/current/linux-x86_64/lib/libsz.a
>>     </LIBS>
>>     <FilePatterns>
>>       *.nc
>>     </FilePatterns>
>>     <Files components="M">
>>       avtCM24FileFormat.C
>>       NETCDFFileObject.C
>>     </Files>
>>     <Files components="E">
>>       avtCM24FileFormat.C
>>       NETCDFFileObject.C
>>     </Files>
>>     <Attribute name="" purpose="" persistent="true" keyframe="true"
>> exportAPI="" exportInclude="">
>>     </Attribute>
>>   </Plugin>
>>
>> how do I go about adding the appropriate netcdf and hdf5 libraries into
>> the plugin CMakeLists.txt file?
>>
>> any help is much appreciated.
>>
>> thank you
>> -simon
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Robert Maynard <
>> robert.maynard at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Simon,
>>>
>>> You do not need to place the CMakeLists.txt inside ParaView at all to
>>> build a plugin. You just need to set that folder as the source folder
>>> for CMake, and set a different directory as the plugin build
>>> directory. After that you will need to set ParaView_DIR to your
>>> ParaView build directory.
>>>
>>> I would also look over: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo for
>>> my information on building plugins.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Simon Su <newsgroup4ssu at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi there,
>>> >
>>> > I have silo plugin working and now I would like to try out adding my
>>> own
>>> > VisIt database plugin to ParaView.
>>> > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/VisIt_Database_Bridge mentioned how to write
>>> the
>>> > CMakeLists.txt file but where do I need to place the files (
>>> CMakeLists.txt,
>>> > and avtMyReaderFileFormat.C) in the source tree of ParaView to be
>>> pickup by
>>> > the cmake process?
>>> >
>>> > thanks
>>> > -simon
>>> >
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>>> --
>>> Robert Maynard
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Robert Maynard
>
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