- expose the names of write and stopAt controls for reuse elsewhere and
provide a stopAtControls enum for 'unknown'
- track the requested number of sub-cycles (was previously a bool)
- the readList<T>(Istream&) function was introduced to handle command
-options with either a single or a list value, but was also used for
the #remove dictionary directive. However, the parsing was fragile
if the list did not start with a '('.
Now handle command-line arg/option list directly (via ITstream)
and #remove with special-purpose reading of a string or word list.
This removes ambiguity and reduces potential future problems.
STYLE: use ITstream instead of IStringStream for command-line lookups
- parses directly to a tokenList without a string copy.
- unknown options or missing option values now emit a shorter message
without the entire usage. This makes it easier to identify the errors
and is better aligned with the behaviour of GNU system tools.
====
$ simpleFoam -case
Using: OpenFOAM-plus (see www.OpenFOAM.com)
Build: plus-01234
Error: option '-case' requires an argument
See 'simpleFoam -help' for usage
====
- provide for reduced (-help) and full (-help-full) usage information.
In many cases the reduced usage provided sufficient and easier
to find the information.
- make -srcDoc an alias for -doc-source
- no warnings about option aliases for future dates.
- split now optionally retains empty substrings.
Added split on fixed field width.
- Foam::name() now formats directly into string buffer, which a
removes one layer of copying and also avoids using a non-constexpr
in the temporary.
STYLE: explicit type narrowing on zero-padded output for ensight
- allows (for example) splitting a user string on whitespace and
passing this to system as a list of arguments, thus bypassing any
implicit use of 'sh'.
- system() with optional background, for spawning processes.
- this makes them applicable to Foam::string, Foam::word etc
ENH: improvements to CStringList
- add strings() sublist variant which can be useful when handling
command arguments separately
- add construct from SubStrings.
- in rare cases we may wish to have command-line arguments that are
non-mandatory. This can now be reflected in the usage output, provided
that the argList::nonMandatoryArgs() has been used.
- added setRootCaseNonMandatoryArgs.H that applies the
argList::nonMandatoryArgs() settings and otherwise performs largely
as per setRootCase.H, except that the check for mandatory arguments
is deferred to later user code.
- constructor for empty cell/face/point Zones, with contents to be
transferred in later.
- ZoneMesh::operator(const word&) to return existing zone or a new empty one.
- this provides a better typesafe means of locating predefined cell
models than relying on strings. The lookup is now ptr() or ref()
directly. The lookup functions behave like on-demand singletons when
loading "etc/cellModels".
Functionality is now located entirely in cellModel but a forwarding
version of cellModeller is provided for API (but not ABI) compatibility
with older existing user code.
STYLE: use constexpr for cellMatcher constants
- warn or fatal if Pstream::init or Pstream::exit are called multiple
times.
- additional Pstream::initNull method as failsafe to initialize MPI
when the underlying OpenFOAM process is not running in parallel but
the application still needs MPI.
- Pstream::exit() can now also be called without having used MPI::init(),
which means it can be used to cleanup serial process or for
applications that used the special purpose Pstream::initNull()
mechanism.
- the dictionary-driven variant of stitchMesh allows sequential
application of 'stitch' operation with requiring intermediate
writing to disk.
- Without arguments:
* stitchMesh uses a system/stitchMeshDict or -dict dict
- With arguments:
* master/slave patches specified on the command-line as in previous
versions.
- allows changing the format of the sending OPstream at an arbitrary
point in the transmission. The information is passed through the
buffer and the receiving IPstream changes its format accordingly.
This allows a temporary toggling of ASCII/BINARY mid-stream.
