Radiation plugin: Workaround BP5 bug #4399
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With the BP5 engine, the Radiation plugin currently creates unreadable files:
The Radiation plugin sets some attributes quite late. This is normally supported by the openPMD-api, but can become a bit tricky, when the attribute is a default attribute with a default value. The Radiation plugin uncovers a bug in (depending on your point of view) either openPMD-api or in ADIOS2 with this procedure in the BP5 engine. Realistically the best fix for this would be to set defaults in the openPMD-api as late as possible, and not as early as possible (see the corresponding item in openPMD/openPMD-api#1332). For now, defining these attributes as early as possible in the Radiation plugin is a sensible workaround.
TODO: