[Paraview] Retrieve Filter name in plugin?

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Short answer is that you cannot. The 'name' is a ParaView client-specific
thing that is not available within the data-processing pipeline. The real
question is why would you need the name in RequestData()?

Utkarsh



On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:35 AM, kit <kit.chambers at rocktalkimaging.com>wrote:

> **
> Dear ParaViewers,
>
> Does anyone know a good way to retrieve the pipeline name for a filter
> within the filter code? For example if I have a plugin filter that comes up
> as "myfilter" in the pipeline and is applied several times, how can I
> retrieve the appropriate name in the RequestData method (e.g. "myfilter3")?
>
> cheers
>
> Kit
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