Warehouses

The warehouse objects (based on MooseObjectWarehouseBase) in MOOSE hold onto the objects that are built by the factory. They are templated so they can hold any of the types of objects the Factory can build.

The main purpose is to accelerate retrieval of sets of objects needed during assembly. To this end, they have many accessors on them such as getActiveObjects(). Internally, these sets of objects are cached to make retrieval quick.

TheWarehouse

Work is currently being undertaken to migrate MOOSE to use a new warehouse architecture. UserObjects have already been migrated. In the new architecture there is only a single warehouse instance (TheWarehouse) through which all object queries can be made.

TheWarehouse is a class that holds and manages memory for MooseObjects - allowing flexible querying to select subsets of objects. TheWarehouse stores customizable meta-data for each object that queries operate on. In general, meta-data is treated as static and not updated after objects have been added. Results are cached and reused for repeated identical queries. For more information on the API and usage, see the doxygen documentation here.

MooseObjectWarehouse

MooseObjectWarehouse is based on MooseObjectWarehouseBase but adds important functionality for objects that support the SetupInterface. In addition, there is a bit of functionality there for holding sets of Kernels that go with each MooseVariable to make retrieving them quick for Jacobian calculations.

There is some trickiness in addObject(). To support getActiveVariableBlockObjects() we want to have a Warehouse for each variable Kernels are acting on. To do that, we have nested MooseObjectWarehouses which we add to in addObject(). However, we need the recursion to stop after one level so we can pass recurse = false to keep it from recursing to death.