From 2fba57e12357a2e55752591634c2472718d9b6d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Lyon <lyon@cs.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:34:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add method to property manager to set property persistent

---
 src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/PropertyManager.hh | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/PropertyManager.hh b/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/PropertyManager.hh
index 62d87b76..0f167ff8 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/PropertyManager.hh
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/Utils/PropertyManager.hh
@@ -593,6 +593,17 @@ class PropertyManager {
             src.copy_to(src_range, dst, dst_range);
         }
 
+        /**
+         * Mark whether this property should be stored when mesh is written
+         * to a file
+         *
+         * @param _persistence Property will be stored iff _persistence is true
+         */
+        void set_persistent(bool _persistence = true)
+        {
+          mesh().property(getRawProperty()).set_persistent(_persistence);
+        }
+
     private:
         void deleteProperty() {
             if (!retain_ && prop_.is_valid())