Artem, You raise good points. In reality, only saving the state of the currently selected proxy from proxy-list domain should be sufficient. There are challenges to doing that given the current implementation, however. Let me try to figure out a viable solution and get back to you.
Utkarsh On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:51 AM, Artem Bodrin <art.bod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, dear developers. > > I have issued this question on a bug tracker, but will duplicate it here, if > you do not mind > https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17957 > > > I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I have noticed, that saved xml state file > contains many identical proxies, that belongs to group "sources". These > proxies are actual source proxies, and participating in property of every > saved "GeometryRepresentation" proxy. > > So every "GeometryRepresentation" have it's own bunch of GlyphType source > proxy instances (listed in proxy_list Domain), and all of them are saved to > a state file. > > I can understand, that saving all of them can be explained by "unified > approach" to saving proxy to state file, but I have trouble with resulting > state file - we tracking it's change with VCS (git, if it matters), and so > many unnecessary (cause they are identical, except GlobalId) proxies saved > gives us additional pain. > > As an additional side effect we have increased state loading time. This > issue might be related to appearance of saved GlyphType proxies in a state > file: > https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17768 > > Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but one can not change the Domain type at > runtime, so this proxy_list will be constant until changed in a > views_and_representations.xml. If so, than maybe there is a way to save > GlyphType proxies to state file only once (or not at all) and reference > their GlobalIds from any other GeometryRepresentation? > > Thanks in advance, > Artem Bodrin. > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > https://paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
