[Gmsh] Feedback on new Gmsh API

[Juan Sanchez]

Thanks for doing this.

Will it be possible for commands sent to the API to be serialized to a
GEO file?  This is so the structure can be programmatically defined in
a scripting language, and have the result sent to someone without the
API.  In addition, is it possible to view the results debugged in the
GUI?

Regards,

Juan


On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 2:19 AM, Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at uliege.be> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> One of our main goals for the next versions of Gmsh is the release of a stable Application Programming Interface (API), allowing users/developers to easily embed Gmsh (as a library) in their own codes. The design goals for this API are the following: the API should
>
> - allow to do everything that can be done in .geo files (and then more)
> - be robust, in particular to wrong input data (i.e. "never crash")
> - allow to do simple things, simply
> - be maintainable over the long run
>
> To achieve these goals the API
>
> - is purely functional
> - only uses basic types from the target language (C++, C or Python)
> - is automatically generated from a master API description file
> - is fully documented
>
> An initial version of the API has landed in the Git repository, and we would like to get your early feedback. It is defined in the https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/api directory:
>
>   - C++ header: https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/api/gmsh.h
>   - C header: https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/api/gmshc.h
>   - Python module: https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/api/gmsh.py
>
> Several examples on how to use the C++ and Python API are available in the https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/demos/api directory. In particular, this directory contains C++ and Python versions of several of the .geo tutorials from https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/tutorial.
>
> We plan to release a first (beta) version of the API in Gmsh 3.1, and a first stable version in Gmsh 4.0.
>
> You can send your feedback directly to the mailing list, or comment in the issue tracker https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/issues/188.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christophe
>
> --
> Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
> University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
> http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine
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