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0010129ParaViewBugpublic2010-01-12 16:252016-08-12 09:57
ReporterEric Monson 
Assigned ToUtkarsh Ayachit 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
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Summary0010129: XDMF Reader doesn't create vtkIdType arrays out of GlobalID attributes
DescriptionThe current Xdmf2 format supports AttributeType="GlobalID", but the reader doesn't really create a vtkIdTypeArray for ParaView when reading in these attributes -- it creates an int type, so ParaView can't really use this as a Global ID.

(This is at least true when reading "heavy data" from an HDF5 file -- I'm not sure what happens when the data is just specified within the .xmf file as XML data...)

In case it helps, I'm detailing what I see as the major issue, plus an outline of my own hacky solution in the Additional Information.
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Additional InformationThe reader, as it is implemented now within vtkXdmfHeavyData::ReadAttributes() gets a vtkDataArray back from ReadAttribute(), and then if it has XDMF_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_GLOBALID it calls SetActiveGlobalIds on that array. This doesn't really do much since the vtkDataArray isn't a vtkIdType.

When vtkXdmfHeavyData::ReadAttribute() reads in the data from the HDF5 file, it creates the vtkDataArray using the vtkXdmfDataArray::FromXdmfArray() method. This is where the problem occurs. Since HDF5 doesn't natively support an "ID Type", when FromXdmfArray() calls vtkXdmfDataArray->GetNumberType(), IDs will always just look like integers, so some integer type of vtk array will be created and returned.

Since I couldn't figure out how to add a new ID number type to Xdmf, the way I solved this in my own modified Xdmf reader was a bit of a hack, but it worked: when the reader detected that an Xdmf attribute had ID type, ReadAttribute() would call vtkXdmfDataArray::FromXdmfIDArray(), which was basically a duplicate of FromXdmfArray(), but creating a vtkIdTypeArray if an integer type was detected (and giving an error for any other type).

I'm sure someone else could come up with a more elegant solution, but this worked fine when I tried it, showing idType in the ParaView Information tab.
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2010-01-12 16:25Eric MonsonNew Issue
2011-07-12 14:29Utkarsh AyachitAssigned To => Utkarsh Ayachit
2011-07-12 14:29Utkarsh AyachitNote Added: 0026996
2011-07-12 14:29Utkarsh AyachitStatusexpired => backlog
2011-07-12 14:29Utkarsh AyachitResolutionopen => reopened
2016-08-12 09:57Kitware RobotNote Added: 0037766
2016-08-12 09:57Kitware RobotStatusbacklog => closed
2016-08-12 09:57Kitware RobotResolutionreopened => moved

Notes
(0026996)
Utkarsh Ayachit   
2011-07-12 14:29   
Reopening. This needs to be fixed.
(0037766)
Kitware Robot   
2016-08-12 09:57   
Resolving issue as `moved`.

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