<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Hello,</span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">I am trying to get meta-data information from a file into ParaView. I have successfully built the information key-value pairs in the information object in my reader, but I am uncertain how to get the data out on the ParaView side of things.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Example:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">I want to get the Calendar date meta-data from my model file. I added Key to the information object to the results info object.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">I set keys as follows:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7a7a7a"> request->AppendUnique(vtkExecutive::KEYS_TO_COPY(), vtkENLILMetaDataKeys::REFDATE_CAL());</font></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "></pre><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">I have a function to add the value to the key like such:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#929292">void vtkENLILMetaDataKeys::populate_meta_data(vtkInformation* request, vtkInformationStringKey *key, char* value)</font></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#929292">{</font></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#929292"> request->Set(key, value);</font></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#929292">}</font></pre><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">I then add the values to the keys as follows:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#929292"> vtkENLILMetaDataKeys::populate_meta_data(outInfo, vtkENLILMetaDataKeys::REFDATE_CAL(), temp);</font></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "></pre><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">After I do this, I can successfully pull the placed data from the information object from within the reader.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">What I cannot figure out is how to access this object from within Paraview.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">My goal is to be able to include the calendar date (as text) in the render view. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Can someone guide me in the correct direction on how to do this? I am looking for possibly a python way of getting at this data.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Josh</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br></span></div></body></html>