From b50dafaf34a51b651d89e1087cfe40304e806726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandra Heuschling <aheuschling@dunant.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 20:03:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add enum PropertyType, so that properties can be restored
 from .om files

---
 src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/OMFormat.hh        | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/writer/OMWriter.cc | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/OMFormat.hh b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/OMFormat.hh
index 0bc8e3da..b81bfabf 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/OMFormat.hh
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/OMFormat.hh
@@ -275,6 +275,23 @@ namespace OMFormat {
 
     };
 
+ //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ //this enum stores the type of the property so that it can be recovered
+    enum PropertyType {
+      BoolType = 0x00,
+      UCharType= 0x01,
+      CharType = 0x02,
+      ShortType = 0x03,
+      UIntType = 0x04,
+      IntType = 0x05,
+      ULongType = 0x06,
+      LongType = 0x07,
+      FloatType = 0x08,
+      DoubleType = 0x09,
+      VecDoubleType = 0x0a
+    };
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
   }; // Chunk
 
   // ------------------------------------------------------------ Helper
diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/writer/OMWriter.cc b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/writer/OMWriter.cc
index c190b2f8..91b7a408 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/writer/OMWriter.cc
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/writer/OMWriter.cc
@@ -620,11 +620,18 @@ size_t _OMWriter_::store_binary_custom_chunk(std::ostream& _os,
   // 2. property name
   bytes += store( _os, OMFormat::Chunk::PropertyName(_bp.name()), _swap );
 
-  // 3. block size
+  // 3. data type
+  OMFormat::Chunk::PropertyType type;
+
+
+
+  bytes += store(_os, type, _swap);
+
+  // 4. block size
   bytes += store( _os, _bp.size_of(), OMFormat::Chunk::Integer_32, _swap );
   //omlog() << "  n_bytes = " << _bp.size_of() << std::endl;
 
-  // 4. data
+  // 5. data
   {
     size_t b;
     bytes += ( b=_bp.store( _os, _swap ) );