[sk11]

Hello All,
How can we use foamDictionary with topoSetDict and access the keywords inside actions() ?

I understand that 'actions' is a list of dictionaries. Is there any way to access/modify the keywords inside the dictionary actions?

I tried,

foamDictionary system/topoSetDict -entry actions.entry0 -value

and it seems the list of dictionaries inside the entry action cannot be accessed via entry0.

But with the dictionary constant/polyMesh/boundary which has similar structure as topoSetDict, foamDictionary works without any problem. Can anyone here help me understand this?
Thanks in advance

[Muerio]

Hi,

I'm currently looking into this exact problem.

The main difference I see when comparing the boundary file to topoSetDict:
boundary contains a list of labeled subdicts whereas topoSetDict contains the actions keyword containing a list of unlabeled subdicts.

foamDictionary uses labels to reference the entries, therefore you can't reference an individual entry in the actions list

My current solution is using a bash script to generate or modify the complete entry I want to assign to actions as a string and then setting it with

foamDictionary -entry actions -set"($ACTIONS)" system/topoSetDict

[olesen]

Originally Posted by Muerio

Hi,

I'm currently looking into this exact problem.

The main difference I see when comparing the boundary file to topoSetDict:
boundary contains a list of labeled subdicts whereas topoSetDict contains the actions keyword containing a list of unlabeled subdicts.

This is correct, but already added in some initial work to support named dictionary entries as a first step to supporting 'actions' as a set of dictionaries instead. Needs more work, but this similar to why the "functions" entry (for functionObjects) changed from "functions ( ... )" to "functions { ... }" - to allow dictionary manipulation. Just hasn't been enough pressure to change topoSetDict as well.