[vtk-developers] vtkSESAMEReader status

[Bill Lorensen]

Folks,

During my initial scan of under covered classes, I started to look at readers.

SESAMEReader has no test and no data. I did find some sesame data in
the paraview data git repo. A wrote a small program to read a sesame
file and display the resultant rectilinear grid. the vtkSESAMEReader
fails with this error:

ERROR: In /Users/lorensen/ProjectsGIT/VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx,
line 754
vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x7fc312002af0): Algorithm
vtkSESAMEReader(0x7fc3120022a0) returned failure for request:
vtkInformation (0x7fc31060da20)
  Debug: Off
  Modified Time: 1244
  Reference Count: 1
  Registered Events: (none)
  Request: REQUEST_DATA
  ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
  FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
  FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0

Then, I discovered vtkPrismSESAMEReader in the paraview repo. Just for
chuckles, I moved it into VTK/IO/Geometry and changed my program to
use it.

It seemed to work!!!

Question: Should we remove vtkSESAMEReader from VTK? It does not work
and is not tested.

Or, should we move the vtkPrimsmSESAMEReader into vtk, renaming it to
vtkSESAMEReader so as not to conflict with paraview.

I would prefer the former to avoid duplicating code.

Bill