I filed https://github.com/usnistgov/fipy/issues/691 to address this
> On Jan 9, 2020, at 8:34 AM, Guyer, Jonathan E. Dr. (Fed) via fipy
> <fipy@nist.gov> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the feedback. I'm inclined to agree.
>
> - Jon
>
>> On Jan 9, 2020, at 3:47 AM, Marcel UJI (IMAP) <a...@uji.es> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jonathan
>>
>> Sorry by my late reply
>>
>> I think that the second one would be enough as I only need to read this data
>> later for further processing. Actually this is not much an issue, as I can
>> simply save phi and later recompute phi.faceGrad, which is also much more
>> economic in terms of storage.
>>
>> Thank you anyway for spending some time on this
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>>
>>
>> El 20/12/19 a les 16:27, Guyer, Jonathan E. Dr. (Fed) via fipy ha escrit:
>>> Glad you found a solution, Marcel.
>>>
>>> The issue is that a FaceGradVariable doesn't pickle itself properly. It
>>> stores the state for a generic FaceVariable, but then it doesn't know how
>>> to rebuild itself from that.
>>>
>>> It either should
>>> - pickle the correct information, which would also involve pickling phi
>>> OR
>>> - pickle itself as a plain FaceVariable, losing connection to phi on
>>> unpickling (which is what your solution does)
>>>
>>> Do you have an opinion on which behavior you'd like?
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Dec 20, 2019, at 2:35 AM, Marcel UJI (IMAP) <a...@uji.es>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thank you Trevor,
>>>>
>>>> This works, but it saves the array values only.
>>>>
>>>> I found an alternative solution with:
>>>>
>>>> dump.write({'E' :
>>>> FaceVariable(mesh=mesh,value=phi.faceGrad,rank=1)},filename='prova.gz',extension='.gz')
>>>>
>>>> which preserves the FaceVariable character.
>>>>
>>>> Merry Christmas!
>>>>
>>>> Marcel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> El 19/12/19 a les 19:04, Keller, Trevor (Fed) via fipy ha escrit:
>>>>
>>>>> The error message indicates that `dump.read` got something unexpected
>>>>> -- namely, a `value` field -- and threw.
>>>>>
>>>>> Naïvely, dumping `phi.faceGrad.value` instea dof `phi.faceGrad`
>>>>> appears to do the trick.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Marcel Aguilella-Arzo
>>>> Professor Titular d'Universitat, Física Aplicada
>>>> Coordinador de la Subespecialitat de CCEETT del Màster en Professor
>>>> d'Educació Secundària
>>>> Departament de Física
>>>> Escola Superior de Tecnologia i Ciències Experimentals
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>> Dr. Marcel Aguilella-Arzo
>> Professor Titular d'Universitat, Física Aplicada
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>> d'Educació Secundària
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