VTK-m has a deprecation method that supports API changes in minor
releases. When an API change is made, the old API is marked with the
VTKM_DEPRECATED macro. If code attempts to use the old API, it still
works, but the compiler issues a warning that the thing is deprecated
and where to find the new API.
We have recently run into an issue when the API changes have a header
file renamed or moved. We still keep the old header file with the old
API, so code including that file will still work. However, sometimes
code expected the contents of that header file without directly
including that header file. In these cases, the code could get an error
about missing classes.
As an example, consider the change from `DynamicCellSet` to
`UnknownCellSet`/`UncertainCellSet`. The deprecated `DynamicCellSet` is
still around. But there is a lot of code that did not directly include
DynamicCellSet.h. This header file was necessarily included by
DataSet.h. Now, when this code uses `vtkm::cont::DynamicCellSet`, you
get a confusing error that the class does not exist. Backward
compatibility broken.
In response to this, we should be more careful about where we put the
deprecated API. Instead of containing the deprecated API, moved headers
should be empty except for a warning and an inclusion of the new header
file. The deprecated API should be moved to the new header file. For
example, in the case of `DynamicCellSet`, the implementation for the
deprecated `DynamicCellSet` is moved to UnknownCellSet.h, which is
included by anything that was including DynamicCellSet.h before.
A new header named TypeList.h and the type lists have been redefined in
this new file. All the types have been renamed from `TypeListTag*` to
`TypeList*`. TypeListTag.h has been gutted to provide deprecated
versions of the old type list names.
There were also some other type lists that were changed from using the
old `ListTagBase` to the new `List`.
Rather than do a CastAndCall on all possible field types when calling a
worklet with two fields (where they all typically get cast to the same
type as the primary field), use the new mechanism with
ArrayHandleMultiplexer to create one code path.
Also update the ApplyPolicy to accept the Field type, which is used to
determine any additional storage types to support.
Now that the dispatcher does its own TryExecute, filters do not need to
do that. This change requires all worklets called by filters to be able
to execute without knowing the device a priori.
This commit adds a worklet as well as a filter that modify point coordinates by moving points
along point normals by the scalar amount times the scalar factor.
It's a simpified version of the vtkWarpScalar class in VTK. Additionally the filter doesn't
modify the point coordinates, but creates a new point coordinates that have been warped.
This commit adds a worklet as well as a filter that modify point coordinates by moving points
along a vector by a certain scalar amount.
It's a simpified version of the vtkWarpVector in VTK.
It doesn't modify the point coordinates, but creates a new point coordinates that have been warped.
