Basic Get/Set operations

This sections groups together the basic operations that describe access to all the elements constitutive of the description of the field :

• name (compulsory),
• time iteration number(compulsory),
• inner loop iteration number(compulsory),
• time(compulsory),
• description(optional),
• number of components(compulsory),
• components names(optional),
• components description(optional).

Some of these items are compulsory because they are essential to the field in order to define its structure or to be identified inside a MED file during the write process. The other ones are there for additional information and can be overlooked if not necessary.

When creating a field by reading a file, all the parameters are set according to the file data and can be consulted via the get methods. When creating a file from scratch, the name and number of components are set by the constructor, but the other items have to be set via the setXXX methods.