[Paraview] ParaView 4.1.0 server-side reader plugin

[Burlen Loring]

Thanks for the clarification. It'd be helpful if all of the builtin 
plugins that supported server only were setup that way. If they're not 
already that is.

Could the representations and view plugins also be supported seamlessly 
with out user intervention in a static link? Re: the plugins that are 
distributed with PV, and enabled by deafult, Couldn't the server side 
load trigger the client load automatically? That would be a nice 
improvement for the static link case, where we'd still want to make use 
of some of the view/rep plugins.

On 01/17/2014 02:15 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Burlen,
>
> It would work for everything, but for plugins that really need
> client-side plugin to be loaded e.g. representation plugins, view
> plugins, you should not do this. In other words, any plugin that only
> is needed on the data processing side should indeed always use
> REQUIRED_ON_SERVER flag. Anything else, shouldn't.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Burlen Loring <bloring at lbl.gov> wrote:
>> Hi Utkarsh and Andy,
>>
>> static linking *really* improves performance on Hopper. One issue though is
>> that plugins are automatically "loaded", so when connecting to a statically
>> linked server the plugin manager immediately pops up and requests that the
>> user load all the plugins. Does the REQUIRED_ON_SERVER flag fix this? in
>> other words is it just for readers? or does it work with other plugins as
>> well?
>>
>> Burlen
>>
>>
>> On 01/16/2014 09:37 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>
>> By default plugins are treated as "REQUIRED_ON_SERVER" and
>> "REQUIRED_ON_CLIENT". Simply add a REQUIRED_ON_SERVER flag in your
>> add_paraview_plugin(...) call.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>>   ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN(MyReader "1.0"
>>     SERVER_MANAGER_XML MyPNGReader.xml
>>     SERVER_MANAGER_SOURCES vtkMyPNGReader.cxx
>>     REQUIRED_ON_SERVER)
>>
>> That should do the trick.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>>
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