[Paraview] PythonProgrammableFilters Multiple Input Ports

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Bane,

In your XML, instead of using `post_creation` and `argument`
attributes, just add a `input_ports="2"` attribute.

BTW, on-going work on Python algorithm will make this much easier. In
this example [1], one could simply pass in `nInputPorts=2` to require
two input ports. I plan to add example with multiple input ports
before this MR [2] gets merged.

Utkarsh

[1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/2501/diffs#10631fdaabfeaf00bdc465f8bb442c9aa862eae7_0_22
[2] https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/2501
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:20 AM Bane Sullivan <banesulli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Gaël,
>
> Thank you for your help! I was aware of this way to add multiple inputs to a programmable filter and FYI if you would like to have a dialog appear in the PV GUI to select the inputs in a non-arbitrary order then try making several InputProperty attributes in the XML rather than using the multiple_input variable.
>
> Unfortunately, this still does not address my original issue. I need the inputs to each be on their own port rather than multiple connections on a single port. This is because I will implement the ability to select input arrays from each port via drop down menus.
>
> Does anyone know how to give the vtkPythonProgrammableFilter multiple input ports or a means to select input arrays to process when having multiple connections on one port? I have a robust means of selecting input arrays for just one input but I cannot get it to work for more than one input.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bane
>
> On June 1, 2018 at 1:33:02 AM, Gaël Grail (gael.grail at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> Hi Bane,
>
> I'm using the binary version of Paraview available in Kitware's website, so I don't know much about what should be written in the C code.
> But in the xml, I'm using this and it works perfectly:
>
> <ServerManagerConfiguration>
>   <ProxyGroup name="filters">
>     <SourceProxy class="vtkPythonProgrammableFilter"
>                  label="toto"
>                  name="To To">
>   <InputProperty clean_command="RemoveAllInputs"
>                      command="AddInputConnection"
>                      multiple_input="2"
>                      name="Inputs">
> <ProxyGroupDomain name="groups">
> <Group name="sources" />
> <Group name="filters" />
>   </ProxyGroupDomain>
>   </InputProperty>
> ...
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Gaël
>
> 2018-06-01 2:40 GMT+02:00 Bane Sullivan <banesulli at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I see an old thread here: https://paraview.markmail.org/thread/z7cy73444s7fjadk about setting multiple input ports for python programmable filters but I cannot get this to work.
>>
>> I want to declare multiple input ports in a ServerManagerConfiguration XML plugin but I have been unable to successfully add more than one input port to the vtkPythonProgrammableFilter.
>>
>> I see that in `paraview/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Core/vtkPythonProgrammableFilter.h` the following is declared:
>>
>>   /**
>>    * Set the number of input ports
>>    * This function is explicitly exposed to enable a vtkClientServerInterpreter to call it
>>    */
>>   void SetNumberOfInputPorts(int numberOfInputPorts) VTK_OVERRIDE
>>   {
>>     this->Superclass::SetNumberOfInputPorts(numberOfInputPorts);
>>   }
>>
>>
>> This leads me to believe that the functionality is there, but how exactly would I set the number of input ports from an XML plugin for a Programmable Filter? I have tried the following with no luck:
>>
>> <ServerManagerConfiguration>
>>  <ProxyGroup name="filters">
>>    <SourceProxy
>> name="TestMuliPort”
>> class="vtkPythonProgrammableFilter”
>> label=“TestMuliPort”
>> post_creation=“SetNumberOfInputPorts"
>> arguments="2”>
>> ……..
>>
>>
>> I get the following ERROR:
>>
>> ERROR: In /Users/kitware/dashboards/buildbot-slave/8275bd07/build/superbuild/paraview/src/ParaViewCore/ServerImplementation/Core/vtkPVSessionCore.cxx, line 371
>> vtkPVSessionCore (0x60c0000d4510): Object type: vtkPythonProgrammableFilter, could not find requested method: "SetNumberOfInputPorts"
>> or the method was called with incorrect arguments.
>>
>> while processing
>> Message 0 = Invoke
>>   Argument 0 = vtk_object_pointer {vtkPythonProgrammableFilter (0x60c0003abde0)}
>>   Argument 1 = string_value {SetNumberOfInputPorts}
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>>
>> Bane
>>
>>
>>
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