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  Program:   ParaView
  Module:    vtkPVMergeTables.h

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/**
 * @class   vtkPVMergeTables
 * @brief   used to merge rows in tables.
 *
 * Simplified version of vtkMergeTables which simply combines tables merging
 * columns. This assumes that each of the inputs either has exactly identical
 * columns or no columns at all.
 * This filter can handle composite datasets as well. The output is produced by
 * merging corresponding leaf nodes. This assumes that all inputs have the same
 * composite structure.
 * All inputs must either be vtkTable or vtkCompositeDataSet mixing is not
 * allowed.
 * The output is a flattened vtkTable.
 * @todo
 * We may want to merge this functionality into vtkMergeTables filter itself.
*/

#ifndef vtkPVMergeTables_h
#define vtkPVMergeTables_h

#include "vtkPVVTKExtensionsRenderingModule.h" // needed for export macro
#include "vtkTableAlgorithm.h"

class VTKPVVTKEXTENSIONSRENDERING_EXPORT vtkPVMergeTables : public vtkTableAlgorithm
{
public:
  static vtkPVMergeTables* New();
  vtkTypeMacro(vtkPVMergeTables, vtkTableAlgorithm);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

protected:
  vtkPVMergeTables();
  ~vtkPVMergeTables();

  int RequestData(vtkInformation*, vtkInformationVector**, vtkInformationVector*);

  virtual int FillInputPortInformation(int port, vtkInformation* info);
  virtual vtkExecutive* CreateDefaultExecutive();

private:
  vtkPVMergeTables(const vtkPVMergeTables&) VTK_DELETE_FUNCTION;
  void operator=(const vtkPVMergeTables&) VTK_DELETE_FUNCTION;
};

#endif
