[vtk-developers] Adding support for retrieving attribute types.

[Timothy M. Shead]

Jeff Baumes wrote:
> Any input on the following patch before I commit it? I know Tim Shead 
> has given this issue some thought in the past.
> 
> ENH: Adding support for retrieving attribute types.
> 
> There are a number of places that specify attribute types
> (point, cell, vertex, edge, row, field) and create an enumeration
> for this (vtkDataObjectToTable, vtkSelectionNode, ...). A new
> method GetAttributes(int) in vtkDataObject uses an enum for the
> possible attribute types and subclasses retrieve the appropriate
> attributes. GetAttributesAsFieldData(int) performs the same function
> but returns a vtkFieldData instance instead of vtkDataSetAttributes.
> GetAttributeTypeForArray is another convenience method that returns
> the attribute type that an array is contained in.
> 
> http://github.com/jeffbaumes/ParaView/commit/cb697c9c25dcd05490648c77bdb725b2fa7a76b1
> 
> Jeff

Sounds cool!

Cheers,
Tim

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