STL import breaks serialization; O.load; Facet must have exactly 3 vertices (not 6)

[Alexander Eulitz [Eugen]]

Ubuntu 16.04 in virtual machine on windows host
affects yade package and yadedaily 2018.02b-201447edfd~xenial

Hi,
there is a problem when you import an stl file to your simulation, save the simulation via O.save and O.load afterwards.
You will get a
RuntimeError: Facet must have exactly 3 vertices (not 6)

Here is the example (stl file from some example is attached, I tried different stls):
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from yade import ymport
O.engines=[
    ForceResetter(),
    InsertionSortCollider([Bo1_Sphere_Aabb()]),
    InteractionLoop(
        [Ig2_Sphere_Sphere_ScGeom()], # collision geometry
        [Ip2_FrictMat_FrictMat_FrictPhys()], # collision "physics"
        [Law2_ScGeom_FrictPhys_CundallStrack()] # contact law -- apply forces
    ),
    # Apply gravity force to particles. damping: numerical dissipation of energy.
    NewtonIntegrator(gravity=(0,0,-9.81),damping=0.1)
]
O.save('before.xml.bz2')
O.bodies.append(ymport.stl('baraban.stl'))
O.save('after.xml.bz2')
O.load('before.xml.bz2')
print "loaded before successfully"
O.load('after.xml.bz2')
print "loaded after successfully"

Cheers Alex

[Alexander Eulitz [Eugen] (kubeu)]

In the Facet.cpp I found the following comment. Maybe this rings a bell for somebody?

void Facet::postLoad(Facet&)
{
 // if this fails, it means someone did vertices push_back, but they are resized to 3 at Facet initialization already
 // in the future, a fixed-size array should be used instead of vector<Vector3r> for vertices
 // this is prevented by yade::serialization now IIRC
 if(vertices.size()!=3){ throw runtime_error(("Facet must have exactly 3 vertices (not "+boost::lexical_cast<string>(vertices.size())+")").c_str()); }

[Bruno Chareyre (bruno-chareyre)]

Hi Alex,
It sounds relevant indeed, however the possible "push_back" would have to be done inside boost serialization, and I doubt we need to dig that deep to understand the problem.

I can't reproduce the problem on ubuntu 16.04 actually (2018-09-26.git-0a2abea or yadedaily), your script gives:
loaded before successfully
loaded after successfully

Bruno

[Janek Kozicki (cosurgi)]

moved from https://bugs.launchpad.net/yade/+bug/1796883 to https://gitlab.com/yade-dev/trunk/issues/44