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.
Because `CellSetExplicit` is a templated class, the implementation of
most of its features is part of the header files. One of the things that
was included was the code to build the reverse connectivity links. That
is, it figured out which cells were incident on each point using the
standard connections of which points comprise which cells.
Of course, building these links is non-trivial, and it used multiple
DPPs to engage the device. It meant that header had to include the
device adapter algorithms and therefore required a device compiler. We
want to minimize this where possible.
To get around this issue, a non-templated function was added to find the
reverse connections of a `CellSetExplicit`. It does this by passing in
`UnknownArrayHandle`s for the input arrays. (The output visit-points-
with-cells arrays are standard across all template instances.) The
implementation first iterates over all `CellSetExplicit` versions in
`VTKM_DEFAULT_CELL_SETS` and attempts to retrieve arrays of those types.
In the unlikely event that none of these arrays work, it copies the data
to `ArrayHandle<vtkm::Id>` and uses those.
For no particularly good reason, there were two functions that converted
and array of counts to an array of offsets: `ConvertNumComponentsToOffsets`
and `ConvertNumIndicesToOffsets`. These functions were identical, except
one was defined in `ArrayHandleGroupVecVariable.h` and the other was
defined in `CellSetExplicit.h`.
These two functions have been consolidated into one (which is now called
`ConvertNumComponentsToOffsets`). The consolidated function has also been
put in its own header file: `ConvertNumComponentsToOffsets.h`.
Normally, backward compatibility would be established using deprecated
features. However, one of the things being worked on is the removal of
device-specific code (e.g. `vtkm::cont::Algorithm`) from core classes like
`CellSetExplicit` so that less code needs to use the device compiler
(especially downstream code).
Part of this change removed unnecessary includes of `Algorithm.h` in
`ArrayHandleGroupVecVariable.h` and `CellSetExplicit.h`. This header had to
be added to some classes that were not including it themselves.
This is a fancy array that takes an array of offsets and converts it to
an array of the number of components for each packed entry.
This replaces the use of `ArrayHandleDecorator` in `CellSetExplicit`.
The two implementation should do the same thing, but the new
`ArrayHandleOffsetsToNumComponents` should be less complex for
compilers.
Somewhere during this edit I removed a header file that didn't strictly
need to be there. This caused me to have to add
```cpp
```
in several places in the code.
The newer version of `ArrayHandle` no longer supports different types of
portals for different devices. Thus, the `ReadPortalType` and
`WritePortalType` are sufficient for all types of portals across all
devices.
This significantly simplifies supporting execution objects on devices,
and thus this change also includes many changes to various execution
objects to remove their dependence on the device adapter tag.
The old version of ExecutionObject (that only takes a device) is still
supported, but you will get a deprecated warning if that is what is
defined.
Supporing this also included sending vtkm::cont::Token through the
vtkm::cont::arg::Transport mechanism, which was a change that propogated
through a lot of code.
The `From` and `To` nomenclature for topology mapping has been confusing for
both users and developers, especially at lower levels where the intention of
mapping attributes from one element to another is easily conflated with the
concept of mapping indices (which maps in the exact opposite direction).
These identifiers have been renamed to `VisitTopology` and `IncidentTopology`
to clarify the direction of the mapping. The order in which these template
parameters are specified for `WorkletMapTopology` have also been reversed,
since eventually there may be more than one `IncidentTopology`, and having
`IncidentTopology` at the end will allow us to replace it with a variadic
template parameter pack in the future.
Other implementation details supporting these worklets, include `Fetch` tags,
`Connectivity` classes, and methods on the various `CellSet` classes (such as
`PrepareForInput` have also reversed their template arguments. These will need
to be cautiously updated.
The convenience implementations of `WorkletMapTopology` have been renamed for
clarity as follows:
```
WorkletMapPointToCell --> WorkletVisitCellsWithPoints
WorkletMapCellToPoint --> WorkletVisitPointsWithCells
```
The `ControlSignature` tags have been renamed as follows:
```
FieldInTo --> FieldInVisit
FieldInFrom --> FieldInMap
FromCount --> IncidentElementCount
FromIndices --> IncidentElementIndices
```
There are still some warnings left:
* Some text in markdown files are incorrectly picked up as
doxygen commands
* ArrayPortalTransform weirdly inherits from a specialized
version of itself. It's technically correct C++ code, but
gives doxygen fits.
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.
Since we don't have explicit template instantiations for CellSetExplicit
and CellSetSingleType we need to mark them as being exported from all
libraries.
This reduces the number of weak vtables vtkm generates, resulting in
a reduction of binary sizes for projects that include vtkm classes in
multiple translation units.
The CellSetExplicit and CellSetSingleType classes have an ivar that
marks the number of points. There were several instances of code
creating cell sets without specifying the number of points. This can be
very bad if subsequent code needs that information.
CellSetExplicit had a constructor that took a single argument that is
the number of points in the data and another constructor that had two
arguments of the number of points and the name. The problem was that the
latter constructor had a default argument for the second argument. Thus,
if you tried to construct a CellSetExplicit with just the number of
points, it would fail to compile because the compiler would not know
which constructor to use.
Fix the issue by removing the single argument constructor.
