Method sendSelf

DEVELOPER/element/cpp/Truss2D.cpp:359–407

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int
Truss2D::sendSelf(int commitTag, Channel &theChannel)
{
    int res;

    // note: we don't check for dataTag == 0 for Element
    // objects as that is taken care of in a commit by the Domain
    // object - don't want to have to do the check if sending data
    int dataTag = this->getDbTag();

    // Truss2D packs it's data into a Vector and sends this to theChannel
    // along with it's dbTag and the commitTag passed in the arguments

    Vector data(5);
    data(0) = this->getTag();
    data(1) = A;
    data(2) = theMaterial->getClassTag();
    int matDbTag = theMaterial->getDbTag();
    // NOTE: we do have to ensure that the material has a database
    // tag if we are sending to a database channel.
    if (matDbTag == 0) {
	matDbTag = theChannel.getDbTag();
	if (matDbTag != 0)
	    theMaterial->setDbTag(matDbTag);
    }
    data(3) = matDbTag;

    res = theChannel.sendVector(dataTag, commitTag, data);
    if (res < 0) {
      opserr << "WARNING Truss2D::sendSelf() - failed to send Vector\n";
      return -1;
    }	      

    // Truss2D then sends the tags of it's two end nodes
    res = theChannel.sendID(dataTag, commitTag, externalNodes);
    if (res < 0) {
      opserr << "WARNING Truss2D::sendSelf() - failed to send ID\n";
      return -2;
    }

    // finally Truss2D asks it's material object to send itself
    res = theMaterial->sendSelf(commitTag, theChannel);
    if (res < 0) {
      opserr << "WARNING Truss2D::sendSelf() - failed to send the Material\n";
      return -3;
    }

    return 0;
}

int
Truss2D::recvSelf(int commitTag, Channel &theChannel, FEM_ObjectBroker &theBroker)