- can now safely use labelList::null() instead of emptyLabelList for
return values. No special treatment required for lists.
Possible replacements:
if (notNull(list) && list.size()) -> if (list.size())
if (isNull(list) || list.empty()) -> if (list.empty())
The receiver may still wish to handle differently to distinguish
between a null list and an empty list, but no additional special
protection is required when obtaining sizes, traversing, outputting
etc.
- previously had a single pointer/value zeros (8 bytes), this meant
that the reinterpret cast to a List would yield a reference that
could be unsafe under certain conditions.
Eg,
const labelList& myList = labelList::null();
Info<< myList.size() << nl; // OK since size is the first parameter
SubList<label>(myList, 0); // Unsafe
The SubList usage is unsafe since it passes in pointer and size into
the underlying UList. However, the pointer from the labelList::null()
will be whatever happens to be around in memory immediately after the
NullObject singleton. This is mostly not a problem if the List size
is always checked, but does mean that the data pointer is rather
dubious.
- Increase the size of the nullObject singleton to 32 bytes of zeros
to ensure that most reinterpret casting will not result in objects
that reference arbitrary memory.
The 32-byte data size is rather arbitrary, but covers most basic
containers.
- changed ensightOutput from a class solely comprising static methods to
a namespace and added in sub-namespaces Detail and Serial.
This makes it easier to "mix-in" functions at different levels.
Refactored and combined some serial/parallel code where possible.
The general ensightOutput namespace has now shifted to be in the
fileFormats lib, while leaving volField outputs in the conversion lib
and cloud outputs in the lagrangian-intermediate lib.
The ensightCloud namespace is now simply folded into the new
ensightOutput namespace.
These changes clean up some code, reduce fragmentation and
duplication and removes the previous libconversion dependency for
sampling.
- use int for ensight nTypes constexpr
Note: issue #1176 is unaffected except for the change in file name:
ensightOutputTemplates.C -> ensightOutputVolFieldTemplates.C
- in some circumstances we need to pass a bool value upwards to the
caller and know if the true/false value was set based on real input
or is a default value.
Eg, in the object::read() we might normally have
enabled_(dict.readIfPresent(key, true));
but would lose information about why the value is true/false.
We can change that by using
enabled_(dict.readIfPresent<Switch>(key, Switch::DEFAULT_ON));
After which we can use this information is testing.
if
(
child.enabled().nonDefault()
? child.enabled()
: parent.enabled()
)
{ ... }
And thus enable output if the parent requested it explicitly or by
default and it has not been explicitly disabled in the child.
No difference when testing as a bool and the text representation
of DEFAULT_ON / DEFAULT_OFF will simply be "true" / "false".
ENH: add construction of Switch from dictionary (similar to Enum)
- Can result in inadvertent conversions where the user should really
know or check if the pointer is valid prior to using.
- Still have several places to fix that are using the deprecated copy
construct and copy assignment
- changed the sectorCoeffs keyword to 'point' from 'axisPt'
for more similarity with other dictionaries.
Continue to accept 'axisPt' for compatibility.
- introduced a ListPolicy details to make the transition between
a short list (space separated) and a long list (newline separated)
more configurable.
We suppress line breaks for commonly used types that often have
short content: (word, wordRes, keyType).
- accidentally introduced by 27c62303ad
STYLE: trial use of brace-initialized dimensionSet
- instead of writing
dimensionedScalar(dimensionSet(1, -2, -2, 0, 0, 0), Zero);
we can use C++11 brace-initialization to bundle the parameters
for the dimensionSet construction and simply write
dimensionedScalar({1, -2, -2, 0, 0, 0}, Zero);
Note the following is incorrect syntax (extra brackets):
dimensionedScalar(({1, -2, -2, 0, 0, 0}), Zero);
- Global functions are unary or combining binary functions, which are
defined in MinMax.H (MinMaxOps.H).
There are also global reduction functions (gMinMax, gMinMaxMag)
as well as supporting 'Op' classes:
- minMaxOp, minMaxEqOp, minMaxMagOp, minMaxMagEqOp
Since the result of the functions represents a content reduction
into a single MinMax<T> value (a min/max pair), field operations
returning a field simply do not make sense.
- Implemented for lists, fields, field-fields, DimensionedField,
GeometricField (parallel reducing, with boundaries).
- Since the minMax evaluates during its operation, this makes it more
efficient for cases where both min/max values are required since it
avoids looping twice through the data.
* Changed GeometricField writeMinMax accordingly.
ENH: clip as field function
- clipping provides a more efficient, single-pass operation to apply
lower/upper limits on single or multiple values.
Examples,
scalarMinMax limiter(0, 1);
limiter.clip(value)
-> returns a const-ref to the value if within the range, or else
returns the appropriate lower/upper limit
limiter.inplaceClip(value)
-> Modifies the value if necessary to be within lower/upper limit
Function calls
clip(value, limiter)
-> returns a copy after applying lower/upper limit
clip(values, limiter)
-> returns a tmp<Field> of clipped values