[Paraview] Retrieving Data (Client-Server)

[Dennis McWherter]

Thank you for your suggestion; do you know if there is a method to extract
coordinate data from this abstraction? If not, it seems like I may need to
delve into the python layer code a little bit. Thank you again for your
help.

Regards,
Dennis McWherter

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:50 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com>wrote:

> Get the vtkPVDataInformation for the object. That will give you
> lightweight information about the object (the same thing shown in the
> Information tab)
>
> If you need a local copy of the object, see how servermanager.Fetch
> does it in the python layer.
>
> David E DeMarle
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>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Dennis McWherter <dmcwhe2 at illinois.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have created a GUI panel which I would like to populate with some
> > information about a given object. I can find the object through the
> > pqServerManagerModel without any issues. However, once I already have
> this
> > object in the form of pqDataRepresentation* or vtkSMProxy* (or some
> slight
> > variation thereof), is there a way in which I can easily retrieve basic
> data
> > on the object? For instance, I would specifically like to know the point
> > coordinates for this object (objects are expected to be standard vtk data
> > types). If possible, I do not want to attempt to "reconstruct" the
> original
> > data object locally. I have also read "GetClientSideObject()" solutions,
> but
> > these break the client-server model which is something I would like to
> > avoid, if possible. Is there any current way of doing this?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dennis McWherter
> >
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