[Paraview] plugin proxy timing issue

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

FYI:
http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=12238

Utkarsh

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> 1) Receive aboutToRemoveServer, serverAdded, aboutToRemoveServer, serverAdded (twice when the self connection is closed and a pvserver connection is made. This is not a problem, but nonetheless odd and probably a bug.
>
> That sounds very fishy. I'll take a look at this.
> (http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=12237)
>
>> 2) plugins on the client, receive serverAdded, before plugins on the server have been loaded, so if they try to create proxies via the proxymanager - they fail because the server doesn't have them yet and can't create them.
>
> That's interesting. I didn't realize this use-case. Let me try to
> restructure the plugin-auto-loading mechanism to ensure that the
> plugins are loaded before the serverAdded gets fired. The fix would be
> auto-load server-side plugins in aboutToAddServer (or whatever the
> corresponding signal is called).
>
> Utkarsh
>