Generator

SMTK’s generator pattern (Generator) is similar to a factory, but with several key differences:

1. The generated instances are registered to the static list of generator types at compile time.

2. the API does not expose a means of selecting exactly which registered generator instance is used to satisfy a call. Instead, each generator instance attempts to consume the input in sequence.

An instance of the generator can reject an input at either the valid() check or during the call operator’s execution (where it can throw an exception to trigger the next generator to attempt to consume the input).

An example that demonstrates the prinicples and API of this pattern can be found at smtk/mesh/interpolation/PointCloudGenerator.h.