Method sendSelf

SRC/element/zeroLength/ZeroLength.cpp:1080–1177

int
ZeroLength::sendSelf(int commitTag, Channel &theChannel)
{
	int res = 0;

	// 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();

	// ZeroLength packs its data into an ID and sends this to theChannel
	// along with its dbTag and the commitTag passed in the arguments

	// Make one size bigger so not a multiple of 3, otherwise will conflict
	// with classTags ID
	static ID idData(10);

	idData(0) = this->getTag();
	idData(1) = dimension;
	idData(2) = numDOF;
	idData(3) = numMaterials1d;
	idData(4) = connectedExternalNodes(0);
	idData(5) = connectedExternalNodes(1);
	idData(6) = useRayleighDamping;

  idData(7) = 0;
  idData(8) = 0;
  if (theDamping) {
    idData(7) = theDamping->getClassTag();
    int dbTag = theDamping->getDbTag();
    if (dbTag == 0) {
      dbTag = theChannel.getDbTag();
      if (dbTag != 0)
	      theDamping->setDbTag(dbTag);
	  }
    idData(8) = dbTag;
  }

	res += theChannel.sendID(dataTag, commitTag, idData);
	if (res < 0) {
	  opserr << "ZeroLength::sendSelf -- failed to send ID data\n";
	  return res;
	}

	// Send the 3x3 direction cosine matrix, have to send it since it is only set
	// in the constructor and not setDomain()
	res += theChannel.sendMatrix(dataTag, commitTag, transformation);
	if (res < 0) {
	  opserr <<  "ZeroLength::sendSelf -- failed to send transformation Matrix\n";
	  return res;
	}

	if (numMaterials1d < 1)
	  return res;
	else {
	  ID classTags(numMaterials1d*3);
	  
	  int i;