[francesco_capuano]

Hi all,

I'm writing a custom application in OF and, just after the typical "include" list of files, I would like to access a keyword from a dictionary, e.g. the divergence scheme for div(phi,U). So I write

const dictionary& fvSchemes = db().lookupObject("fvSchemes")

so that, afterwards, I could call fvSchemes.lookup("div(phi,U)")

However, the compiler complains: db not declared in this scope

How can I define the database object?

Thanks in advance.

[tomislav_maric]

Originally Posted by francesco_capuano

Hi all,

I'm writing a custom application in OF and, just after the typical "include" list of files, I would like to access a keyword from a dictionary, e.g. the divergence scheme for div(phi,U). So I write

const dictionary& fvSchemes = db().lookupObject("fvSchemes")

so that, afterwards, I could call fvSchemes.lookup("div(phi,U)")

However, the compiler complains: db not declared in this scope

How can I define the database object?

Thanks in advance.

fvMesh is (by inheritance) kind of an objectRegistry, you can look it up in Doxygen html source guide:

const objectRegistry& db = mesh.thisDb();

The mesh usually lives as long as the simulation, so this is why the fields, dicts, etc are bound to it, why it is a kind of a registry itself.

And be careful, inside the src/OpenFOAM/db/objectRegistry/objectRegistryTemplates.C, you'll see that the lookupObject is a templated function, so, provide the proper template argument (your code above won't work even after you get a ref to db()):

const IOdictionary& fvSchemes = db.lookupObject<IOdictionary>("fvSchemes");

And because fvMesh is objectRegistry, you can just use the methods directly, no need to pick up the reference...

T.

[francesco_capuano]

Dear Tomislav,

thanks a lot for your clear and accurate reply. Actually there was another mistake in my code: one should use the subDict function of the dictionary class to extract keywords from the divSchemes sub-dictionary. So, for those interested, the final working code is:

const objectRegistry& db = mesh.thisDb();
const IOdictionary& fvSchemes = db.lookupObject<IOdictionary>("fvSchemes");
dictionary divSchemes = fvSchemes.subDict("divSchemes");
word scheme(divSchemes.lookup("div(phi,U"));

I have one more question: with this method, if the div(phi,U) value is, for instance, "Gauss linear", only "Gauss" is caught. How can you catch the entire entry, even if it consists of more than one word?

[wc34071209]

Originally Posted by francesco_capuano

Dear Tomislav,

thanks a lot for your clear and accurate reply. Actually there was another mistake in my code: one should use the subDict function of the dictionary class to extract keywords from the divSchemes sub-dictionary. So, for those interested, the final working code is:

const objectRegistry& db = mesh.thisDb();
const IOdictionary& fvSchemes = db.lookupObject<IOdictionary>("fvSchemes");
dictionary divSchemes = fvSchemes.subDict("divSchemes");
word scheme(divSchemes.lookup("div(phi,U"));

I have one more question: with this method, if the div(phi,U) value is, for instance, "Gauss linear", only "Gauss" is caught. How can you catch the entire entry, even if it consists of more than one word?

The 'word' class holds a string which should not contain any space and therefore in this way you can not get the whole entry. You can do that by reading word by word. There should be some smarter way of doing this and I hope someone could drop a hint.