Method MarshallDataSet

IO/Parallel/vtkPChacoReader.cxx:466–495

  return tmp;
}
char* vtkPChacoReader::MarshallDataSet(vtkUnstructuredGrid* extractedGrid, vtkIdType& len)
{
  // taken from vtkCommunicator::WriteDataSet

  vtkUnstructuredGrid* copy;
  vtkDataSetWriter* writer = vtkDataSetWriter::New();

  copy = extractedGrid->NewInstance();
  copy->ShallowCopy(extractedGrid);

  // There is a problem with binary files with no data.
  if (copy->GetNumberOfCells() > 0)
  {
    writer->SetFileTypeToBinary();
  }
  writer->WriteToOutputStringOn();
  writer->SetInputData(copy);

  writer->Write();

  len = writer->GetOutputStringLength();

  char* packedFormat = writer->RegisterAndGetOutputString();

  writer->Delete();

  copy->Delete();

  return packedFormat;
}
vtkUnstructuredGrid* vtkPChacoReader::UnMarshallDataSet(char* buf, vtkIdType size)
{
  // taken from vtkCommunicator::ReadDataSet