Events management

Description

The mesh, mesh_fem, mesh_im and model description are linkedtogether in the sense that there is some dependencies between them. For instance, when an element is suppressed to a mesh, the mesh_fem object has to react.

Files

File(s)	Description
getfem_context.h and getfem_context.cc	Define a class context_dependencies from which all object has to derive in order to manage events.

State

The main tool to deal with simple dependence of object is in getfem_context.h. An object context_dependencies is defined there. In order to deal with the dependencies of an object, the object context_dependencies needs to be a parent class of this object. It adds the following methods to the object:

add_dependency(ct)

Add an object (which has to have context_dependencies as a parent class) to the list of objects from which the current object depend.

touch()

Indicates to the dependent objects that something has change in the object.

context_check()

Check if the object has to be updated. if it is the case it makes first a check to the dependency list and call the update function of the object. (the update function of the dependencies are called before the update function of the current object).

context_valid()

Says if the object has still a valid context, i.e. if the object in the dependency list still exist.

Moreover, the object has to define a method:

``void update_from_context(void) const``

which is called after a context_check() if the context has changed.

An additional system is present in the object mesh. Each individual element has a version number in order for the objects mesh_fem and mesh_im to detect which element has changed between two calls.

Perspectives

The event management of some objects should be analysed with care This is the case for instance of|mls|, mesh_fem_level_set, partial_mesh_fem, etc.

The event management still have to be improved to be a fully reactive system.