[MOAB-dev] get_entities_by_handle - entities do not include meshset entities

[MICHAEL CORTIS]

Thanks Tim for you're assertion. 
Was hoping to get all the meshsets too, recursively contained in the entity. 
But its not a problem, I will work in another way, 
in which I am not interested in the meshsets tree, 
hence I can get all the entities and save them in a single meshset.

Thanks once again and

Kind regards

Michael

On 14 Mar 2014, at 20:44, Tim Tautges (ANL) <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> [cc'ing moab-dev because this might be of general interest...]
> 
> Ok, yes, that is expected behavior.  The reasoning behind it is that if you're asking to recurse through contained sets, 
> chances are you're interested in entities and not sets.  I can see where in some cases this might not be the case, but I 
> would still assert that this isn't the more common case.
> 
> Note that this behavior is noted in the documentation of the 'recursive' argument to that function, at least in the 
> master version (but I'm guessing probably in 4.6 as well, since I don't recall that changing recently).
> 
> - tim
> 
> On 03/14/2014 01:08 PM, MICHAEL CORTIS wrote:
>> Tim,
>> 
>> I've create a simple example and discovered the following:
>> if use TRUE for recursive search, such as:
>> 
>> Range tempRange
>> rval = mb->get_entities_by_handle(*mit,tempRange,true);
>> 
>> then, the contained meshsets won't be listed in the range,
>> 
>> but if the recursive is FALSE,
>> 
>> I will get those meshset 1 level below listed in the range.
>> 
>> Why, when recursive search in all contained meshsets, these contained meshsets won't be listed in the range?
>> 
>> if you want the program, please let me know, and btw, I am using MOAB 4.6.
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> On 14 Mar 2014, at 15:03, "Tim Tautges (ANL)" <tautges at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:tautges at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
>> 
>>> That's almost certainly not true.  Can you confirm this with a simple test?
>>> 
>>> - tim
>>> 
>>> On 03/14/2014 09:17 AM, MICHAEL CORTIS wrote:
>>>> Dear Tim,
>>>> 
>>>> I've noticed that when using get_entities_by_handle,
>>>> the range won't contained meshset entities which are in the handle.
>>>> Believe that one should remark in the documentation that only vertices/edges/tri/tet are retrieved,
>>>> if there is no plan to gather the meshset entities from a handle into the range/vector.
>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards
>>>> 
>>>> Michael
>>>> 
>>> 
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>              Tim Tautges            Argonne National Laboratory
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