From 332cf3345ac284e1dd42d587c17be7df227ee1a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Olesen <Mark.Olesen@esi-group.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 16:23:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: emit "constant" for uniform constant field (#1269)

- this improves overall consistency and makes re-reading as a generic
  patch field behave properly when the underlying patch has zero size.
---
 .../PatchFunction1/ConstantField/ConstantField.C    | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/meshTools/PatchFunction1/ConstantField/ConstantField.C b/src/meshTools/PatchFunction1/ConstantField/ConstantField.C
index 5ef4d1d974..0650943323 100644
--- a/src/meshTools/PatchFunction1/ConstantField/ConstantField.C
+++ b/src/meshTools/PatchFunction1/ConstantField/ConstantField.C
@@ -253,8 +253,17 @@ void Foam::PatchFunction1Types::ConstantField<Type>::writeData
 ) const
 {
     PatchFunction1<Type>::writeData(os);
-    //os  << token::SPACE << value_ << token::END_STATEMENT << nl;
-    value_.writeEntry(this->name_, os);
+
+    if (isUniform_)
+    {
+        os.writeKeyword(this->name_)
+            << "constant " << uniformValue_
+            << token::END_STATEMENT << nl;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        value_.writeEntry(this->name_, os);
+    }
 }