From c04961b4a8a2b860f0361e35e3ef8e68f2dfb80d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Leiter <kenneth.leiter@arl.army.mil>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:49:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: Add method to getName of XdmfArrayType as a string
 (useful when printing error messages in client codes).

---
 core/XdmfArrayType.cpp | 6 ++++++
 core/XdmfArrayType.hpp | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/XdmfArrayType.cpp b/core/XdmfArrayType.cpp
index f21188db..22b661c8 100644
--- a/core/XdmfArrayType.cpp
+++ b/core/XdmfArrayType.cpp
@@ -172,6 +172,12 @@ XdmfArrayType::getElementSize() const
   return mPrecision;
 }
 
+std::string
+XdmfArrayType::getName() const
+{
+  return mName;
+}
+
 void
 XdmfArrayType::getProperties(std::map<std::string, std::string> & collectedProperties) const
 {
diff --git a/core/XdmfArrayType.hpp b/core/XdmfArrayType.hpp
index fd9d5cd7..6be1a644 100644
--- a/core/XdmfArrayType.hpp
+++ b/core/XdmfArrayType.hpp
@@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ public:
    */
   unsigned int getElementSize() const;
 
+  /**
+   * Get the name of the data type.
+   *
+   * @return the name of the data type.
+   */
+  std::string getName() const;
+  
   void
   getProperties(std::map<std::string, std::string> & collectedProperties) const;
 
-- 
2.24.1