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  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper.h

  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
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// .NAME vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper - Utility class for merging poly data in parallel
// This class is designed as a utility class to help merging of poly data
// generated by filters that generate multiple polydata outputs and the associated
// locators. It requires that the filter uses vtkSMPMergePoints which creates
// a number of necessary data structures.

#ifndef __vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper_h
#define __vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper_h

#include "vtkFiltersSMPModule.h"

#include <vector>

class vtkPolyData;
class vtkSMPMergePoints;
class vtkIdList;

class VTKFILTERSSMP_EXPORT vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper
{
public:

  // Description:
  // This is the data structure needed by the MergePolyData function.
  // Each input is represented by a polydata (Input), a locator generated
  // using identical binning structure (Locator) and offset structures
  // for each vtkCellArray type. These offsets allow semi-random access
  // to the cell arrays. They should store offsets to where cells start
  // in the cell arrays. Each offset can be for 1 or more cells. The finer
  // the granularity, the better the parallelism.
  struct InputData
  {
    vtkPolyData* Input;
    vtkSMPMergePoints* Locator;
    vtkIdList* VertOffsets;
    vtkIdList* LineOffsets;
    vtkIdList* PolyOffsets;

    InputData(vtkPolyData* input,
              vtkSMPMergePoints* locator,
              vtkIdList* vertOffsets,
              vtkIdList* lineOffsets,
              vtkIdList* polyOffsets) : Input(input),
                                        Locator(locator),
                                        VertOffsets(vertOffsets),
                                        LineOffsets(lineOffsets),
                                        PolyOffsets(polyOffsets)
      {
      }
  };

  // Description:
  // Given a vector of vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper::InputData, it merges
  // them and returns a new vtkPolyData (which needs to be deleted by the
  // caller). Note that this function uses the first input as a temporary
  // merging target so it will be modified in place. If you need to preserve
  // it, use DeepCopy before passing to MergePolyData.
  static vtkPolyData* MergePolyData(std::vector<InputData>& inputs);

protected:
  vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper();
  ~vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper();

private:
  vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper(const vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper&);  // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper&);  // Not implemented.
};

#endif
// VTK-HeaderTest-Exclude: vtkSMPMergePolyDataHelper.h
