[vtk-developers] vtkAOSDataArrayTemplate annoying API change

[Bill Lorensen]

The new names don't make much sense to me.
On Mar 23, 2016 8:51 PM, "David Gobbi" <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:55 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Recently the API for vtkAOSDataArrayTemplate was changed.
>>
>> Set/Get/Insert/InsertNextTupleValue was changed to
>> Set/Get/Insert/InsertNextTypedTuple.
>>
>> What was the purpose of the name change?
>>
>> There are 13 c++ wiki examples that use the old API. I will need to
>> #if the changed code so that it will still compile with older vtk
>> versions. I do not turn on legacy options for the examples.
>>
>> Seems like an arbitrary change to me.
>>
>
> I was bitten by this as well.  But I can understand the rationale
> behind the change.  The old name made little sense.
>
> Actually, I recommend going even further: add new methods
> called GetTypedValue() et al. and deprecate GetValue() et al.
> Then, for VTK 8, I would love to see these method appear:
>
>   double vtkDataArray::GetValue()
>   vtkIdType vtkAbstractArray::GetNumberOfValues()
>
> I would really like GetNumberOfValues() to make a comeback.
>
>  - David
>
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