[vtk-developers] vtkSESAMEReader status

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

BIll,

Those should be moved to ParaView (after having verified that they are
used at all by ParaView still). I'll put that on my plate.

Utkarsh

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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