[MOAB-dev] r4559 - MOAB/trunk/itaps/imesh

[Tim Tautges]

Another use case for tags on tags...

- tim

On 03/09/2011 03:34 PM, James Porter wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 14:42 -0600, Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
>> On 03/09/2011 02:40 PM, James Porter wrote:
>>> Should we do the same for iGeom? I have patches for that and iRel ready
>>> to go.
>>>
>>
>> Probably.  But they don't have the same priority as noone else uses or
>> implements those interfaces.
>
> So there's one thing still failing here (which is causing failures for
> PyTAPS): iMesh_getTagType on a set-type tag returns iBase_ENTITY_HANDLE.
> The issue, of course, is that MOAB doesn't need to distinguish between
> entities and sets, but ITAPS does. I'm not sure what the best way to fix
> this is. Maybe adding a boolean flag to the MOAB tag to distinguish the
> two?
>
> This would, unfortunately, require that we serialize that out to files
> to be 100% correct, but that part isn't necessary for the PyTAPS tests
> to pass.
>
> - Jim
>
>

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