[MOAB-dev] Reader/Writer filename extension access

[Tim Tautges]

I think sometimes you want to know ahead of time which will be used.

- tim

Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> Paul Wilson wrote:
> 
>> It is difficult for a user to determine any kind of unique and robustly
>> identifying information about which reader actually was invoked (will be
>> invoked) to read the file in question from the MOAB API.  Instead the
>> user tends to reimplement the same kind of code that MOAB uses (string
>> comparisons on filename extensions) but with little/no code reuse (don't
>> actually know which extensions are handled by which reader) and huge
>> potential for inconsistency.
>>
> 
> If it is sufficient to know which reader was used, why not have MOAB tag the
> file set with the file format that the data came from?
> 
> - jason
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