Merge pull request #8691 from OPM/platform-offscreen

Add example for headless plot export using Python
Fix childPtrArray issue

GrpcInterface/Python/rips/PythonExamples/headless_plot_export.py

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import sys
+import os
+
+import rips
+
+use_platform_offscreen = True
+if use_platform_offscreen:
+    # To use offscreen, the path to fonts must be specified in the environment variable QT_QPA_FONTDIR="C:/windows/fonts"
+    resinsight = rips.Instance.launch(
+        command_line_parameters=["-platform offscreen", "--size", 1200, 1000]
+    )
+
+    qpa_fontdir = os.environ["QT_QPA_FONTDIR"]
+    print("Environment var QT_QPA_FONTDIR : " + qpa_fontdir)
+else:
+    resinsight = rips.Instance.find()
+
+summary_filename = "NORNE.SMSPEC"
+
+project = resinsight.project
+summary_case = project.import_summary_case(summary_filename)
+
+summary_plot_collection = project.descendants(rips.SummaryPlotCollection)[0]
+
+summary_plot_collection.new_summary_plot(summary_cases=[summary_case], address="FOPR")
+summary_plot_collection.new_summary_plot(
+    summary_cases=[summary_case], address="WOPR:A*;WOPR:B*"
+)
+
+plots = resinsight.project.plots()
+for plot in plots:
+    plot.export_snapshot()
+    # plot.export_snapshot(output_format="PDF")
+
+resinsight.exit()

GrpcInterface/RiaGrpcServiceInterface.cpp

@@ -181,9 +181,13 @@ void RiaGrpcServiceInterface::copyPdmObjectFromRipsToCaf( const rips::PdmObject*
         auto scriptability = field->template capability<caf::PdmAbstractFieldScriptingCapability>();
         if ( scriptability )
         {
-            if ( !dynamic_cast<caf::PdmValueField*>( field ) )
+            bool isPdmPtrArrayField = ( dynamic_cast<caf::PdmPtrArrayFieldHandle*>( field ) &&
+                                        !dynamic_cast<caf::PdmChildArrayFieldHandle*>( field ) );
+
+            if ( !isPdmPtrArrayField && !dynamic_cast<caf::PdmValueField*>( field ) )
             {
-                // Recursive object update is not supported
+                // Update of child objects and child object arrays are not supported
+                // Update of PdmPtrArrayField is supported, used by RimcSummaryPlotCollection_newSummaryPlot
                 // https://github.com/OPM/ResInsight/issues/7794
                 continue;
             }