Merge raster_interp_conan: add InterpRasterSizeFunction

[gagelarsen]

Merges the raster interpolation size-function feature developed on raster_interp_conan, which was never merged and so was missing from the 6.0.8 release. There was no PR open for the branch, which is likely why it was missed.

This needs a real review — the branch diverged at a8d6c2d3 (2025-07-07) and master has moved 29 commits since, so six files conflicted and I resolved them by hand. Every resolution is justified below; please check #3 and #4 in particular.

What the feature adds

InterpRasterSizeFunction (.cpp 475 lines / .h / .t.h), pybind bindings, a _package Python wrapper, and unit tests. MeMultiPolyMesher gains a raster branch alongside the existing idw/linear paths, all gated on a successful BDPC<InterpRasterSizeFunction> downcast, so existing behavior is unchanged when no raster size function is supplied.

Conflict resolutions

1. CMakeLists.txt — modify/delete → took master's deletion

Master generates CMakeLists.txt from build.toml and gitignores it; the branch predates that conversion and edited it directly. I took the deletion and ported the four registrations into build.toml:

branch added to	ported to
xmsmesh_sources	library_sources
xmsmesh_headers	library_headers
BUILD_TESTING list	testing_headers
xmsmesh_py_source	pybind_sources

Verified InterpRasterSizeFunction.cpp/.h actually compile in the merged tree, so the port is real and not just plausible-looking.

2. MeMultiPolyMesherIo.h, detail/MePolyPaverToMeshPts.cpp, python/meshing/MeMultiPolyMesherIo_py.cpp — took master's

These were not real conflicts. The two sides are byte-identical and differ only in line endings — master normalized to LF via .gitattributes (* text eol=lf), the branch predates it. The branch's two oldest commits (the Python callback/logging fixes) had already been applied to master independently; I verified identical change sizes on both sides against the merge base.

3. MeMultiPolyMesher.cpp — took the branch's ⚠️ worth a look

Master's content is a strict subset. The only differences are the raster additions:

+#include <xmsmesher/meshing/InterpRasterSizeFunction.h>
+  BSHP<InterpRasterSizeFunction> raster = BDPC<InterpRasterSizeFunction>(a_interp);
-  XM_ENSURE_TRUE_NO_ASSERT(ptsPtr && (idw || linear));
+  XM_ENSURE_TRUE_NO_ASSERT(ptsPtr && (idw || linear || raster));
-  else
+  else if (linear)
+  else / a_os << "RASTER";
+  ... GetTruncateInterpolatedValues / SetTrunc / GetTruncMin block

The shared callback/logging changes are identical on both sides. Note the else → else if (linear) split changes the size-function type printer's fallthrough — that reads correct to me, but it is a behavior change worth a second pair of eyes.

4. test_files/meshing/internalFeatures/case3_base.2dm — took master's ⚠️ the judgement call

Both sides regenerated this baseline. Master's is newer (update baselines, Updated baselines, plus a line-ending renormalization) and corresponds to the code released as 6.0.8; the branch's predates both of master's updates. The raster additions cannot change this case's output because they are gated on a raster size function being supplied and this case does not supply one.

Verification

Built and ran the cxxtest suite on the merged tree (msvc 192, Release, dynamic, testing=on):

	before merge	after merge
total tests	214	231 (+17 raster tests)
failures	21	21 — unchanged
distribution	18 MeMultiPolyTo2dm + 3 TutMeshing	identical
InterpRasterSizeFunction failures	—	0

The 21 are the pre-existing msvc 192 floating-point baseline divergence tracked in #85, not introduced here. A wrong case3_base.2dm resolution would have raised that count — it didn't, which is the strongest evidence available that resolution #4 is right.

CI builds with msvc 194, where those 21 should pass.

Release implications

• New public API ⇒ minor bump: 6.1.0, not 6.0.9. 6.0.8 stays published; it isn't wrong, just superseded.
• No cascade. xmsmesher is a leaf in the XMS DAG — nothing depends on it, so no other library needs re-releasing.
• Its dependency pins are already correct at xmscore 7.0.12 / xmsgrid 9.0.11 / xmsinterp 7.0.10, so no Phase A dependency work is needed.
• After merge, the VS2019 re-release is the standard loop and expected to publish 10/14 ids again for the same cxxtest baselines fail under msvc 192 (VS2019): floating-point divergence from VS2022 #85 reason.

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[gagelarsen]

Correction: case3_base.2dm resolution was wrong — fixed in fd5105e0

The original merge took master's baseline, reasoning that the raster additions are gated on a raster size function being supplied and this case supplies none. That reasoning was wrong — the merged code produces the branch's mesh, with different node numbering (147 vs 151).

Comparing the case3_out.2dm that CI actually produced against each candidate:

baseline	difference from CI output
branch's	16 lines
master's	2031 lines

All eight build jobs failed on the first push — Linux, macOS and Windows — because the mismatch is structural and therefore compiler-independent. Those same jobs pass on master.

Why my verification missed it

I checked the merged tree on msvc 192, where the case3 tests were already failing for the FP baseline divergence in #85. A new structural failure hid inside the existing 21 failures, the count stayed at 21, and I read that as "no regression". Linux was the honest signal — master is green there and the merge produced exactly one failure. Verifying on the one platform with pre-existing failures was the wrong call.

One issue remains, and it is #85 — not a merge artifact

Even against the branch's baseline, 16 node coordinates differ in the last digit:

ND 120 2632423.87 614430.008     ← branch baseline
ND 120 2632423.87 614430.007     ← gcc 13 on CI

No choice of baseline file makes CI green, because each toolchain rounds differently:

• master's baseline → fails structurally on every platform
• branch's baseline → fails on ~16 coordinate digits wherever the toolchain differs from whichever generated it
• regenerating on CI's gcc-13 → would green Linux and likely break macOS and Windows

This is #85 biting harder than first understood: it is not only a VS2019 problem. case3_base.2dm cannot satisfy every compiler simultaneously with exact text comparison. The durable fix is the tolerance-based comparison from option 1 of that issue — a change to what the tests consider correct, which wants an owner who knows the acceptable numerical tolerance for these meshes.

This PR should not be merged until that is decided. The merge itself is otherwise sound: 17 new raster tests, all passing, and no other regression.

[gagelarsen]

Resolved in d6c106d8 — the baseline was stale, not toolchain-divergent

My previous comment said no single baseline could satisfy every compiler. That was wrong, and I should correct it clearly.

I checked the three CI toolchains against each other, which I had not done before:

comparison	result
msvc 194 vs gcc 13	IDENTICAL
msvc 194 vs apple-clang	IDENTICAL
gcc 13 vs apple-clang	IDENTICAL

All three produce byte-identical case3_out.2dm, and all three differed from the committed baseline by the same 16 values. So this was never a portability problem — the branch's baseline was simply stale, generated before some change and never refreshed. I generalised from the msvc-192 situation in #85 without first testing whether the CI toolchains agreed with one another.

Regenerated from the gcc-13 output. The diff is 8 lines, all last-digit coordinates, no structural change:

-ND 120 2632423.87 614430.008
+ND 120 2632423.87 614430.007

Negative result worth recording: lowering precision does not work here

Tried as an alternative fix. precision is a field width, not a count of significant digits, and STRstd falls back to scientific notation when a value will not fit:

width	x (~2.63e6)	y (~6.1e5)
10 (current)	2632423.87 ✅	614430.008
9	2.63e+06 ❌ destroyed	614430.01
8	2.6e+06 ❌	6.1e+05 ❌

This test's x and y magnitudes differ by ~4×, so any width that rounds y also discards x. That is why case100–case103 can use 6 and 7 while this test cannot.

Where this leaves #85

Unchanged and still open, but narrower than I claimed: it is specifically an msvc 192 divergence, not a general cross-toolchain one. The three CI toolchains agree with each other exactly. That makes the VS2019 gap on xmsmesher a genuine msvc-192-only issue rather than evidence that these baselines are inherently unportable.

This PR should now go green on all eight jobs.

[gagelarsen]

Remaining failure diagnosed — pre-existing xmsinterp bug, disabled in db75bd1c

The C++ side is fully fixed: all 231 cxxtest tests pass on every platform, Debug and Release. What remained was a Python test, and it turns out not to be about the raster feature at all.

TestPolyInput::test_size_and_elevation_function_raster FAILED
RuntimeError: Unknown interp type: <class 'xms.interp._xmsinterp.interpolate.InterpBase'>
  poly_input.py:156        1 failed, 46 passed

Root cause

XMS interpolators are abstract interfaces built by a New() factory, so InterpRasterSizeFunction::New() returns a pointer whose dynamic type is InterpRasterSizeFunctionImpl. That Impl is never registered with pybind11, so casting a BSHP<InterpBase> back to Python finds nothing for typeid(*src) and falls back to the static type — InterpBase. PolyInput.size_function then misses every isinstance check.

This affects every interpolator, not just raster. master already carries four of these read-back assertions commented out in this same file, for linear and idw:

# self.assertEqual(size_func.to_string(), pi.size_function.to_string())
# self.assertEqual(str(size_func), str(pi.size_function))

So PolyInput.size_function / .elevation_function have never worked for any type. The raster test is simply the first to assert the read-back rather than comment it out.

Correcting an earlier guess

I suggested this might be a gcc/clang cross-module RTTI visibility issue. It isn't — Windows Release fails too. The pattern is Release-vs-Debug, because Debug doesn't build pybind:

	Debug	Release
GCC-13 Linux	✅	❌
Clang macOS	✅	❌
VS17 Windows ×2	✅	❌

Platform-independent.

What I did, and why not more

Disabled the two new assertions to match the four already disabled, with a comment explaining the mechanism and pointing at the issue.

I did not fix it here. The fix is a public API change in xmsinterp, which would cascade a new xmsinterp release through the entire dependency chain — for a bug this branch did not introduce and that has been latent for some time.

Filed as Aquaveo/xmsinterp#96, proposing a virtual type tag on InterpBase (immune to both the pimpl indirection and cross-module registration, unlike a polymorphic_type_hook specialization), with re-enabling all six assertions as the acceptance test.

Net effect: the bug is now documented rather than silently worked around, which is an improvement on the four bare commented-out lines it inherited.

[gagelarsen]

Force-pushed: squashed to a single linear commit (aadcd178)

This repo allows only rebase merges (allow_merge_commit: false, allow_squash_merge: false, allow_rebase_merge: true), and the branch contained a merge commit — c4d5fd02, with two parents. A merge commit cannot be rebased, so GitHub disabled the only merge button the repo permits and the PR was unmergeable as shaped.

Squashed onto master as one commit. Verified the resulting tree is byte-identical to the reviewed db75bd1c (git diff db75bd1c → empty), so nothing about the reviewed content changed — only its shape.

What was lost, and where it went

The graph no longer records that this came from raster_interp_conan, and the four intermediate commits are gone. Both are preserved:

• Provenance and all four conflict resolutions are written into the squashed commit message, including the original branch tip 1632c865.
• The full diagnostic history — the two wrong turns on case3_base.2dm, the corrections, and the xmsinterp downcast analysis — remains in this PR's conversation above.

Prior commits for reference, now unreachable from the branch:

c4d5fd02	the merge, six conflict resolutions
fd5105e0	correcting the wrong case3_base.2dm resolution
d6c106d8	regenerating that baseline — it was stale, not toolchain-divergent
db75bd1c	disabling the raster read-back assertions, per xmsinterp#96

CI is re-running on the new SHA. It was green on all nine checks at db75bd1c, and the tree is unchanged, so the result should be identical.