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- additional boundaryData options (header, binary, compression)

- remove vtkSurfaceWriter "writePrecision" keyword (1806 compatibilty)
  and use "precision" in format option sub-dictionary.

- instead of deciding beforehand if a surface format requires a separate
  geometry file (or if a geometry file should be written if no fields were
  written) now determine afterwards if something was written.

  This improves the overall reliability (consistency) and is more
  convenient for the caller as well.

- remove writeGeometry() in favour of write() and make it pure virtual
  so that all writers must explicitly deal with it.

- establish proxy extension at construction time and treated as an
  invariant thereafter. This avoids potentially surprising changes in
  behaviour when writing.

- The writers have changed from being a generic state-less set of
  routines to more properly conforming to the normal notion of a writer.
  These changes allow us to combine output fields (eg, in a single
  VTK/vtp file for each timestep).

  Parallel data reduction and any associated bookkeeping is now part
  of the surface writers.
  This improves their re-usability and avoids unnecessary
  and premature data reduction at the sampling stage.

  It is now possible to have different output formats on a per-surface
  basis.

- A new feature of the surface sampling is the ability to "store" the
  sampled surfaces and fields onto a registry for reuse by other
  function objects.

  Additionally, the "store" can be triggered at the execution phase
  as well

- preliminary work to #1057

- add dictionary selectable format (ascii|binary) to
  VTKsurfaceFormat, VTPsurfaceFormat

- Allows passing of additional information (per-face zone ids) or possibly
  other things, while reducing the number of arguments to pass.

- In sampledTriSurfaceMesh, preserve the region information that was
  read in, passing it onwards via the UnsortedMeshSurface content.

  The Nastran surface writer is currently the only writer making use
  of this per-face zone information.
  Passing it through as a PSHELL attribute, which should retain the
  distinction for parts. (issue #204)

- New boundaryData surface writer
- Moved templated code into separate files
- Output filenames written to functionObjectState dictionary
- Ensight surface writer now supports a 'collate times' option [mattijs]
- Nastran surface writer updated based on user feedback

- New boundaryData surface writer
- Moved templated code into separate files
- Output filenames written to functionObjectState dictionary
- Ensight surface writer now supports a 'collate times' option [mattijs]
- Nastran surface writer updated based on user feedback

- easier (more logical) when adding a new writer

ENH: add surface field  writer for 'starcd' format

- creates *.usr files, which can be read in proSTAR with the 'getuser'
  command, but which can also be parsed directly since the format is
  extremely primitive

This reverts commit c5bea524.

This reverts commit b18f6cc1.

- write geometry file if no fields would be sampled
- write geometry file only once for obj, stl formats and use MeshedSurfaceProxy
  for writing

- using 'nil' type to write geometry only, in the future we could fallback to 'null'
  writer and hook in arbitrary formats from surfMesh

- IOobject gets writeEndDivider() static method

- added obj surfaceWriter
- don't bother with prepended field names on obj and stl surfaceWriter.
  It fills the disk and suggests differences where there are none.

- removed the previously added fileName type(), isDir(), isFile() methods.

- added optional bool parameter to isFile() function to explicitly
  enable/disable the check for gzip files.

- fixed minor bugginess where the default usage of isFile() would result in
  false positive matches.

- be slightly more stringent and use isDir() and isFile() instead of
  exists() function when we actually know the expected type.