Minimal Mili datasets

[aowen87]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

A Mili user is trying to use the old visit plugin to read in datasets that only contain a mesh (only the "A" file; no time steps), and visit doesn't know how to interpret this. The new plugin also doesn't know how to interpret this because it wasn't an expected case. This sounds like a rare use case, but it's something we should handle.

Impact (Please click check boxes AFTER submitting ticket)

• [ ] High - User productivity significantly improved
• [x] Medium - User productivity partially improved
• [ ] Low - User productivity trivially improved

Is your feature request specific to a data set?

I have the dataset that the users were trying to load.

Describe the solution you'd like.

We need the plugin to recognize when a dataset only contains the A file. It should generate a single time state mesh from this.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Additional context

[aowen87]

There appears to be an issue with a call to the mili library. It's unclear what should be handed to mc_read_results for the time state. I've asked Kevin about this and am waiting for a reply.