- new '-ascii' option to write in ASCII format instead of the
  controlDict setting. This can be useful when generating fields that
  should be parsed with other tools, or for visual inspection.

- correct mismatch of option names and lookups

- can use either command-line option "-load-fields" or dictionary
  entry "readFields" to specify field names to be preloaded.

  Essentially the same functionality as with a readFields function
  object but with a lot less typing.

- tutorial examples provided by Ryan Danks <ryan.danks@rwdi.com>
  illustrate using setExpr* utilities to calculate a quantity
  as a post-processing step.

- simplifies local toggling.

- centralize fileModification static variables into IOobject.
  They were previously scattered between IOobject and regIOobject

Kutalmış Berçin authored 4 years ago and Mark OLESEN committed 4 years ago

- additional include "Switch" in expressions

Support for DimensionedFields

ENH: Improvement to overset that allows multiple motion solvers

See merge request Development/openfoam!428

sergio authored 4 years ago and Andrew Heather committed 4 years ago

     to operate with overset

1) Adding zoneMotion to rigidBodyMotion
2) Introducing PID to prescribedRotation restraint
3) Making drivenLinearMotion read total displacement
4) When drivenLinearMotion is used sixDof and rigid-body solvers
   write total displacement

file "meta" information

See merge request Development/openfoam!430

Mark OLESEN authored 4 years ago and Andrew Heather committed 4 years ago

- currently add to mesh zones to provide a table of contents
  of the zone names that allows downstream consumers quick access to
  the information without needing to parse the entire file.

Mark OLESEN authored 4 years ago and Andrew Heather committed 4 years ago

- support selective enable/disable of the file banner.

ENH: improve code isolation for decomposedBlockData

- use readBlockEntry/writeBlockEntry to encapsulate the IO handling,
  which ensures more consistency

- new decomposedBlockData::readHeader for chaining into the
  block header information.

- remove unused constructors for decomposedBlockData

ENH: minor cleanup of collated fileOperations

Mark OLESEN authored 4 years ago and Andrew Heather committed 4 years ago

- improves interface and data consistency.
  Older signatures are still active (via the Foam_IOstream_extras
  define).

- refine internals for IOstreamOption streamFormat, versionNumber

ENH: improve data alignment for IOstream and IOobject

- fit sizeof label/scalar into unsigned char

STYLE: remove dead code

Mark OLESEN authored 4 years ago and Andrew Heather committed 4 years ago

- read/write lists of character data in binary only.
  This is the only means of preserving data.
  If character data are written as an ASCII list, there is no means of
  determining if spaces or newlines are content or separators.

Mark OLESEN authored 4 years ago and Andrew Heather committed 4 years ago

- handle binary/contiguous first as being the most obvious, followed
  by increasing complexity of ascii.
  Structure reading and writing routines similarly by introducing a
  readList method to compliment the writeList method.

Mark OLESEN authored 4 years ago and Andrew Heather committed 4 years ago

- would ideally like the same for tmp, but there is too much existing
  code that uses a multiply operation that would be interpreted as a
  dereference.

- generally OK to miss for easily evaluated functions, but highly
  misleading with expressions (where the evaluate may be invalid
  during construction).

- based on fix supplied by Henning.Scheufler@dlr.de

STYLE: adjust wording of age-warning

- override casename, procesorCase flags to guarantee reconstructed
case to be written to the undecomposed directory
- alternative is to construct a Zero mesh on the undecomposed
runTime and add all other bits to that but that has not been
pursued

- patch point ordering was affected by the EnSight face sorting
  (tri, quad, nsided). This did not affect other point fields,
  since they use the internal field values.

TUT: lagrangian: clean up tutorials

See merge request Development/openfoam!429

- fvMeshDistribute and redistributePar changes

- for use when the is_contiguous check has already been done outside
  the loop. Naming as per std::span.

STYLE: use data/cdata instead of begin

ENH: replace random_shuffle with shuffle, fix OSX int64 ambiguity

- direct check of punctuation.
  For example,

      while (!tok.isPunctuation(token::BEGIN_LIST)) ..

  instead of

  while (!(tok.isPunctuation() && tok.pToken() == token::BEGIN_LIST)) ..

  Using direct comparison (tok != token::BEGIN_LIST) can be fragile
  when comparing int values:

      int c = readChar(is);
      while (tok != c) ..  // Danger, uses LABEL comparison!

- direct check of word.
  For example,

      if (tok.isWord("uniform")) ..

  instead of

      if (tok.isWord() && tok.wordToken() == "uniform") ..

- make token lineNumber() a setter method

ENH: adjust internal compound method empty() -> moved()

- support named compound tokens

STYLE: setter method for stream indentation

- orient blocks in global x/y/z.
  Provisioning for coarser/smaller geometries.

- single-step for reconstructParMesh
- no point merging for redistributePar -reconstruct

COMP:  objective manager masks regIOobject::write function (#2005)

See merge request Development/openfoam!427