The legacy VTK file reader previously only supported a specific set of Vec
lengths (i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 9). This is because a basic array
handle has to have the vec length compiled in. However, the new
`ArrayHandleRuntimeVec` feature is capable of reading in any vec-length
and can be leveraged to read in arbitrarily sized vectors in field
arrays.
The `VecTraits` class allows templated functions, methods, and classes to
treat type arguments uniformly as `Vec` types or to otherwise differentiate
between scalar and vector types. This only works for types that `VecTraits`
is defined for.
The `VecTraits` templated class now has a default implementation that will
be used for any type that does not have a `VecTraits` specialization. This
removes many surprise compiler errors when using a template that, unknown
to you, has `VecTraits` in its implementation.
One potential issue is that if `VecTraits` gets defined for a new type, the
behavior of `VecTraits` could change for that type in backward-incompatible
ways. If `VecTraits` is used in a purely generic way, this should not be an
issue. However, if assumptions were made about the components and length,
this could cause problems.
Fixes#589
The legacy VTK file reader for unstructured grids had a bug when reading
cells of type voxel. VTK-m does not support the voxel cell type in
unstructured grids (i.e. explicit cell sets), so it has to convert them to
hexahedron cells. A bug in the reader was mangling the cell array index
during this conversion.
Sandia National Laboratories recently changed management from the
Sandia Corporation to the National Technology & Engineering Solutions
of Sandia, LLC (NTESS). The copyright statements need to be updated
accordingly.
The legacy VTK file reader has a condition to flip the bytes in values
when the endian does not match the current system. The problem was that
when reading in a vector, the flip was happening on all bytes of a Vec.
This caused the last components of the Vec to be flipped with the first
components. Instead, we want each component to be flipped independently.
