[MOAB-dev] Reader/Writer filename extension access

[Tim Tautges]

Oops, forgot to add the important caveat that you'd only be asking about known extensions, and would only get back the 
indication that the reader/writer was registered to handle that extension, not that it would successfully read any file 
with that extension.

- tim

Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> Tim Tautges wrote:
>> I think sometimes you want to know ahead of time which will be used.
>>
> 
> But sometimes MOAB doesn't know until after the file is read.  The most
> robust way to implement something like this would probably be to have each
> file reader implement a virtual function that checks whether or not the file
> is the correct format for the reader based on file internals.  Then provide
> some MOAB API to access that.  Perhaps an option to load_file that instructs
> it to only create the set tagged with the file type but not read in any data.
> 
> - jason
> 

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