[Paraview] ParaView 5.2 Release Candidate 3 available for download

[Armin Wehrfritz]

Hi,

I tested 5.2 RC3 and encountered an issue when reading OpenFOAM cases.

The problem only occurs when the OpenFOAM data (i.e. the mesh or fields)
are written in binary format. I setup two test cases that are otherwise
identical, where for the one the data is in ascii and the other one in
binary format.
With ParaView 5.1.2 I can read both cases without any error, but with
ParaView 5.2 RC3 the cases for which the data is in binary format leads
to an error (see below for the exact error message).

The case is taken directly from the official OpenFOAM 4.x tutorials, and
here is a link to the case files that can be directly used for debugging:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l0cb8vd6pjkb1zz/debug_PV_OF.tar.gz?dl=0

All tests were done with the ParaView binaries distributed by Kitware.

Let me know if you need more information or if I can help debugging this
further.

Cheers,
Armin



> ERROR: In /home/buildslave/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-pvbinsdash-linux-shared-release_opengl2_qt4_superbuild/source-paraview/VTK/IO/Geometry/vtkOpenFOAMReader.cxx, line 5147
> vtkOpenFOAMReaderPrivate (0x4896cf0): Error reading line 1277 of /home/arminw/tmp/debug_PV_OF/pitzDaily_binary/constant/polyMesh/points: Expected punctuation token ')', found �
>
>
> ERROR: In /home/buildslave/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-pvbinsdash-linux-shared-release_opengl2_qt4_superbuild/source-paraview/VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 784
> vtkPVCompositeDataPipeline (0x48ba200): Algorithm vtkPOpenFOAMReader(0x488a610) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x47af0c0)
>   Debug: Off
>   Modified Time: 224666
>   Reference Count: 1
>   Registered Events: (none)
>   Request: REQUEST_DATA
>   FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0
>   ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
>   FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0