[Paraview] ParaView 4.1.0 server-side reader plugin

[Burlen Loring]

here it is, assigned to you.
http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=14542


On 01/20/2014 06:51 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Burlen,
>
> That's a good  point. Mind reporing a bug for this? Upgrading the
> ParaViewPlugins.cmake file has been on my wish list for a while now.
> They macros have never been revisited or cleanup since their
> inception. I would like to collect such feature requests so we can
> take all such things into consideration when cleaning that up.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Burlen Loring <bloring at lbl.gov> wrote:
>> 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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