With the major revision 2.0 of VTK-m, many items previously marked as
deprecated were removed. If updating to a new version of VTK-m, it is
recommended to first update to VTK-m 1.9, which will include the deprecated
features but provide warnings (with the right compiler) that will point to
the replacement code. Once the deprecations have been fixed, updating to
2.0 should be smoother.
For several versions, VTK-m has had a `Variant` templated class. This acts
like a templated union where the object will store one of a list of types
specified as the template arguments. (There are actually 2 versions for the
control and execution environments, respectively.)
Because this is a complex class that required several iterations to work
through performance and compiler issues, `Variant` was placed in the
`internal` namespace to avoid complications with backward compatibility.
However, the class has been stable for a while, so let us expose this
helpful tool for wider use.
Several revisions ago, the ability to use virtual methods in the
execution environment was deprecated. Completely remove this
functionality for the VTK-m 2.0 release.
Deprecate `VirtualObjectHandle` and all other classes that are used to
implement objects with virtual methods in the execution environment.
Additionally, the code is updated so that if the
`VTKm_NO_DEPRECATED_VIRTUAL` flag is set none of the code is compiled at
all. This opens us up to opportunities that do not work with virtual
methods such as backends that do not support virtual methods and dynamic
libraries for CUDA.
They were meant to replace `make_ImplicitFunction*Handle` classes, but
they don't really provide any interesting functionality and are not
backward compatible in any case. So just get rid of one more thing we
don't need to support.
Unfortunately, this introduces a backward-incompatible change with the
filters that use ImplicitFunctions. Before, they would get an
ImplicitFunctionHandle. This class is deprecated, and there is no easy
way to get back the actual type of implicit function stored in it.
There is still a test for the deprecated functionality (for now). The
deprecated test only happens if deprecated virtuals are still compiled,
and warnings are suppressed for this part of the code.
The `ImplicitFunction` classes are now trivial classes that can be
passed among host and devices. Because of this, we now need to know the
type of the `ImplicitFunction` in order to use it.
The old functionality still exists (when virtual methods are still being
compiled), but will give deprecation warnings. It is also not possible
to get a pointer from `ImplicitFunctionHandle` and cast it back to the
original data type (because the type changed). This is a weird testing
feature that makes little sense in practice.
Also unsupported in the deprecated classes is the ability to change
the object and have those changes reflected in the handle. This is
unfortunate, but it would have been difficult to implement this
feature that is going away and only appears to be used in some of
the tests.
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