[Paraview] basics of paraview client server programming

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Alas, there's nothing up-to-date. I've been meaning to write a blog
series covering various aspect of ParaView internals, but it's hard to
find some downtime to get that going. I'll try to see if I can find
the old PDF for the ParaView Guide v3 and share the old chapter
(although obsolete, but basic design may still be relevant). The
ParaView developers Wiki
(http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/Main_Page) has a few
articles that we wrote with coming up with the design for some of the
core components. The implementations generally differ slightly from
the design and may have names/APIs changed since, but nonetheless may
be helpful in understanding how things came about. Specifically,

[1] http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/ServerManager_2.0
[2] http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/ProcessModule_2.0
[3] http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/Views_And_Representations
[4] http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/images/2/24/ParaViewCollaborationChanges.pdf

Utkarsh

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Ellon Paiva <ellonpaiva at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for that. I'm very interested to know if there's such book or document.
>
> When I started developing a plug-in for ParaView I found this presentation
> almost by accident. Maybe it can help you. Apparently it was used in a
> conference/workshop (VIS08?) to describe briefly the proxy system, and
> refers to the "Paraview Guide, Version 3, section 18.6, and chapter 19 for
> details (see slide 30). Unfortunately the version 3 of the Guide I couldn't
> find.
>
> Ellon
>
>
> On 06/02/2016 07:35 AM, Peter Debuchev wrote:
>
> Is any introduction available, how vtkSMServerManager, vtkSMSessions,
> vtkProxies etc. are set up to interact with a pvserver or with a custom
> server application?
> I am not talking about short demos that show how to create and display a
> sphere using pvpython. What I am looking for is a book chapter or similar
> explaining the principles behind vtkSMSessions, vtkProcies etc.
>
> Does anybody remember, which of the VTK or ITK or Paraview books included
> such chapters?
>
> Peter
>
> 2016-05-29 19:09 GMT+02:00 Peter Debuchev <peterdebuchev at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Dear Paraview programmers,
>> I am looking for some information about the basic principles of Paraviews
>> client-server model, the setup of client proxies and the communication
>> design.
>>
>> I think that I have seen a chapter with a short introduction on these
>> topics some years ago. It was in one of the VTK books or in the Paraview
>> User's Guide. Now I cannot find this chapter again. Has it been removed in
>> the latest edition of these books? Or is it described in a different book
>> which I don't remember?
>>
>> Peter
>
>
>
>
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