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 * @file    generic_field.hh
 * @brief   
 */

#ifndef GENERIC_FIELDS_HH_
#define GENERIC_FIELDS_HH_

/**
 * @file
 * @brief Fields computed from the mesh data.
 *
 * This file collects fields that are independent of particular equation and
 * depends only on data in mesh.
 */

#include <boost/exception/info.hpp>  // for operator<<, error_info::error_in...
#include "fields/field.hh"           // for Field
#include "fields/field_values.hh"    // for FieldValue
#include "input/type_base.hh"        // for Array
#include "input/type_generic.hh"     // for Instance

class Mesh;

template <int spacedim>
class GenericField {
public:

    /// Index value type
    typedef typename FieldValue<spacedim>::Scalar DoubleScalar;
    /// Index valued field
    typedef Field<spacedim, DoubleScalar> IndexField;

    /**
     * Returns an instance of a scalar integer field that provides ID's of regions.
     */
    static auto region_id(Mesh &mesh) -> IndexField;

    /**
     * Returns an instance of a scalar integer field that provides ID's of subdomains used for
     * domain decomposition.
     *
     * TODO: FieldFE just use provided data pointer (unsafe solution), so currently we store the data into a mesh.
     * Which is safe as long as we have one mesh for whol calculation.
     * After we have FieldFE that use some sort of Vector class with own memory management, we should use these
     * to pass the data in safe way.
     */
    static auto subdomain(Mesh &mesh) -> IndexField;
};


#endif /* GENERAL_FIELDS_HH_ */