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 Program:   Visualization Toolkit
 Module:    vtkDataSetGhostGenerator.h

 Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
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// .NAME vtkDataSetGhostGenerator.h -- Base class for ghost data generators
//
// .SECTION Description
//  An abstract class that provides common functionality and implements an
//  interface for all ghost data generators. Ghost data generators accept as
//  input a partitioned data-set, defined by a vtkMultiBlockDataSet, where each
//  block corresponds to a partition. The output consists of vtkMultiBlockDataSet
//  where each block holds the corresponding ghosted data-set. For more details,
//  see concrete implementations.
//
// .SECTION See Also
// vtkUniformGridGhostDataGenerator, vtkStructuredGridGhostDataGenerator,
// vtkRectilinearGridGhostDataGenerator

#ifndef VTKDATASETGHOSTGENERATOR_H_
#define VTKDATASETGHOSTGENERATOR_H_

#include "vtkMultiBlockDataSetAlgorithm.h"

// Forward Declarations
class vtkInformation;
class vtkInformationVector;
class vtkMultiBlockDataSet;

class VTK_FILTERING_EXPORT vtkDataSetGhostGenerator:
  public vtkMultiBlockDataSetAlgorithm
{
  public:
    vtkTypeMacro(vtkDataSetGhostGenerator,vtkMultiBlockDataSetAlgorithm);
    void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

    // Description:
    // Set/Get for number of ghost layers to generate.
    vtkSetMacro( NumberOfGhostLayers, int );
    vtkGetMacro( NumberOfGhostLayers, int );

    // Standard VTK pipeline routines
    virtual int FillInputPortInformation(int port,vtkInformation *info);
    virtual int FillOutputPortInformation(int port, vtkInformation *info);

    virtual int RequestData(
        vtkInformation *rqst, vtkInformationVector **inputVector,
        vtkInformationVector* outputVector );

  protected:
    vtkDataSetGhostGenerator();
    virtual ~vtkDataSetGhostGenerator();

    // Description:
    // Generate ghost layers. Implemented by concrete implementations.
    virtual void GenerateGhostLayers(
        vtkMultiBlockDataSet *in, vtkMultiBlockDataSet *out) = 0;


    int NumberOfGhostLayers;

  private:
    vtkDataSetGhostGenerator(const vtkDataSetGhostGenerator&); // Not implemented
    void operator=(const vtkDataSetGhostGenerator&); // Not implemented

};

#endif /* VTKDATASETGHOSTGENERATOR_H_ */
