Tpetra::SrcDistObject Class Reference

Abstract base class for objects that can be the source of an Import or Export operation. More...

#include <Tpetra_SrcDistObject.hpp>

Inheritance diagram for Tpetra::SrcDistObject:

Public Member Functions
virtual	~SrcDistObject ()
	Virtual destructor. More...

Detailed Description

Abstract base class for objects that can be the source of an Import or Export operation.

Any object that may be the source of an Import or Export data redistribution operation must inherit from this class. This class implements no methods, other than a trivial virtual destructor. If a subclass X inherits from this class, that indicates that the subclass can be the source of an Import or Export, for some set of subclasses of DistObject. A subclass Y of DistObject which is the target of the Import or Export operation will attempt to cast the input source SrcDistObject to a subclass which it knows how to treat as a source object. The target subclass Y is responsible for knowing what source classes to expect, and how to interpret the resulting source object.

DistObject inherits from this class, since a DistObject subclass may be either the source or the target of an Import or Export. A SrcDistObject subclass which does not inherit from DistObject need only be a valid source of an Import or Export; it need not be a valid target.

This object compares to the Epetra class Epetra_SrcDistObject. Unlike in Epetra, this class in Tpetra does not include a getMap() method. This is for two reasons. First, consider the following inheritance hierarchy: DistObject and RowGraph inherit from SrcDistObject, and CrsGraph inherits from DistObject and RowGraph. If SrcDistObject had a virtual getMap method, that would make resolution of the method ambiguous. Second, it is not necessary for SrcDistObject to have a getMap method, because a SrcDistObject alone does not suffice as the source of an Import or Export. Any DistObject subclass must cast the SrcDistObject to a subclass which it knows how to treat as the source of an Import or Export. Thus, it's not necessary for SrcDistObject to have a getMap method, since it needs to be cast anyway before use. In general, I prefer to keep interfaces as simple as possible.

Definition at line 89 of file Tpetra_SrcDistObject.hpp.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

virtual Tpetra::SrcDistObject::~SrcDistObject ( )

inlinevirtual

Virtual destructor.

It's necessary to provide this both for memory safety of derived classes, and to make SrcDistObject a polymorphic type (otherwise it can't be the argument of a dynamic_cast).

Definition at line 96 of file Tpetra_SrcDistObject.hpp.

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• Tpetra_SrcDistObject.hpp