[Paraview] Writer plugin?

[David E DeMarle]

      <InputProperty name="Input" command="SetInputConnection">
        <ProxyGroupDomain name="groups">
          <Group name="sources"/>
          <Group name="filters"/>
        </ProxyGroupDomain>

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David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>
wrote:

> David
>
> I used to make my writers the same as filters and even allow them to
> shallow copy their input to the output. Then in paraview they can appear in
> the filters menu and can be inserted in the middle of a pipeline and each
> time a render is activated, the writer would be triggered. (I used it for
> saving particles out from animations of advected flows). (you can check if
> the timestep has changed or other stuff is different and skip writes if
> necessary).
>
> Adding the writer as a filter is an easy option!
>
> JB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of David
> Thompson
> Sent: 28 January 2015 17:35
> To: ParaView
> Subject: [Paraview] Writer plugin?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a ParaView plugin that contains a new writer which I would like to
> expose. However, while the plugin does properly expose a new view and
> representation, the writer does not appear to get added (when I try to save
> a vtkTable such as a statistics filter output, it doesn't appear as an
> option).
>
> 1. Is there any documentation for adding writers in plugins? This page has
> a comment or two but doesn't appear complete:
>
>     http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Plugin_HowTo
>
> 2. If you're willing to look over the XML, I've attached it below. See any
> mistakes?
>
>         Thanks,
>         David
>
> <ServerManagerConfiguration>
>   <!-- Other proxy groups for views and representations here -->
>
>   <ProxyGroup name="writers">
>     <WriterProxy
>       class="vtkPJSONTableWriter"
>       name="PJSONTableWriter">
>       <Documentation>
>         Write tabular data to a JSON file.
>       </Documentation>
>       <InputProperty
>         command="SetInputConnection"
>         name="Input">
>         <DataTypeDomain
>           composite_data_supported="0"
>           name="input_type">
>           <DataType value="vtkTable"/>
>         </DataTypeDomain>
>         <Documentation>The input filter/source whose output dataset is to
>         written to the file.</Documentation>
>       </InputProperty>
>       <Hints>
>         <WriterFactory extensions="json" file_description="JSON tabular
> data" />
>       </Hints>
>     </WriterProxy>
>
>   </ProxyGroup>
> </ServerManagerConfiguration>
>
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