text: // Copyright (c) Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other VisIt
  // Project developers.  See the top-level LICENSE file for dates and other
  // details.  No copyright assignment is required to contribute to VisIt.
  
  // ************************************************************************* //
  //                           avtIOInformation.h                              //
  // ************************************************************************* //
  
  #ifndef AVT_IO_INFORMATION_H
  #define AVT_IO_INFORMATION_H
  #include <database_exports.h>
  
  
  #include <vector>
  
  
  typedef std::vector<std::vector<int> > HintList;
  
  
  // ****************************************************************************
  //  Class: avtIOInformation
  //
  //  Purpose:
  //      Contains information needed for I/O, including hints that will give
  //      better performance and restrictions for non-global filesystems (the
  //      latter is currently unimplemented).
  //
  //  Programmer: Hank Childs
  //  Creation:   May 11, 2001
  //
  //  Modifications:
  //    Jeremy Meredith, Tue Sep 18 15:36:47 PDT 2001
  //    Added nDomains.
  //
  // ****************************************************************************
  
  class DATABASE_API avtIOInformation
  {
    public:
                                 avtIOInformation();
  
      void                       AddHints(HintList &);
      const HintList            &GetHints(void) const  { return hints; };
      void                       SetNDomains(int);
      int                        GetNDomains()  const  { return nDomains; }
  
    protected:
      int                        nDomains;
      HintList                   hints;
  };
  
  
  #endif
  
  
  