OOF2: The Manual

OutputValue
	8.6.5. Output-related Classes

Name

OutputValue — Wrapper for OutputVal classes

Synopses

C++ Synopsis

#include "engine/outputval.h"

class OutputValue {
  const OutputVal& valueRef() const;
  const OutputVal* valuePtr() const;
  OutputValue* valueClone() const;
  const OutputValue& operator+=(const OutputValue& other);
  const OutputValue& operator-=(const OutputValue& other);
  const OutputValue& operator*=(double x);
  double operator[](const IndexP& index) const;
  double& operator[](const IndexP& index);
}

OutputValue operator+(const OutputValue &a, const OutputValue &b);
OutputValue operator-(const OutputValue &a, const OutputValue &b);
OutputValue operator*(double x, const OutputValue &ov);
OutputValue operator*(const OutputValue &ov, double x);
OutputValue operator/(const OutputValue &ov, double x);

Python Synopsis

from oof2.SWIG.engine import outputval

class OutputValue:
  def valuePtr(self)
  def valueClone(self)
  def __getitem__(self, index)

Source Files

SRC/engine/outputval.C: C++ source code
SRC/engine/outputval.h: C++ header file
SRC/engine/outputval.swg: SWIG source code

Description

The OuputValue class is a reference counting wrapper for the various OutputVal classes. That means that an OutputValue contains a pointer to an OutputVal, and takes care of deleting the OutputVal when no more OutputValues are using it.

OutputValues should not be created explicitly, except by functions like Field::output. They should never be created in Python at all, since that confuses the reference counting.

Methods

`const OutputVal& valueRef() const`

valueRef returns a reference to the OutputVal wrapped inside the OutputValue. This call does not increment the reference count of the OutputVal, so the programmer must ensure that the returned OutputVal reference does not outlive the OutputValue object.

`const OutputVal* valuePtr() const`

valuePtr is just like valueRef, except that it returns a pointer instead of a reference. This can be more convenient in some situations.

`OutputVal *valueClone() const`

valueClone is like valuePtr and valueRef, except that it returns a pointer to a new copy of the underlying OutputVal. It is the programmers responsibility to ensure that the pointer is eventually deallocated. valueClone should be use in situations in which the OutputValue might be deallocated before the program is finished with the OutputVal.

`const OutputValue& operator+=(const OutputValue&)` etc.

The majority of the arithmetic operators available for OutputVals are also available for OutputValues, but only in C++. (The restriction to C++ is because OutputValues are converted to OutputVals by swig typemaps when being passed from C++ to Python, at least in all of the cases in which they're used in Outputs.)

`double operator[](IndexP&), getitem(i)`

The C++ operator[] and the Python __getitem__ return a component of the OutputValue's underlying OutputVal, given an IndexP of the right variety.


OutputVal		FEMesh