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Is your feature request related to a problem? If so, please describe.
Downstream applications might need to guard against bugs in e.g. ADIOS2 or HDF5. This is currently difficult, since it requires including backend-specific headers.
Describe the solution you'd like
Since backend versions can be changed in openPMD-api's design without an ABI change, this should ideally be runtime call.
We already have the following in version.hpp:
/** Return the feature variants of the openPMD-api library (run-time) * * @return std::map< std::string, bool > with variants such as backends*/
std::map<std::string, bool> getVariants();
This cannot be extended to include version information without breaking API, but an additional call could help:
Using #define macros: Would require including backend headers into public headers, which goes against our project structure and would make the ABI of user code depend on the available backends. Currently, installing a new version of e.g. ADIOS2 only requires relinking downstream applications.
Fetching this information manually in downstream applications: Requires interacting with the backend libraries instead of going via openPMD-api.
Is your feature request related to a problem? If so, please describe.
Downstream applications might need to guard against bugs in e.g. ADIOS2 or HDF5. This is currently difficult, since it requires including backend-specific headers.
Describe the solution you'd like
Since backend versions can be changed in openPMD-api's design without an ABI change, this should ideally be runtime call.
We already have the following in
version.hpp
:This cannot be extended to include version information without breaking API, but an additional call could help:
Describe alternatives you've considered
#define
macros: Would require including backend headers into public headers, which goes against our project structure and would make the ABI of user code depend on the available backends. Currently, installing a new version of e.g. ADIOS2 only requires relinking downstream applications.Additional context
Required for implementing the open TODO in ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu#4759
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