From ed1ac1aa8781205d99403c293dd41d062cf8536f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abdoulbari Zaher <32519851+a-zakir@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:45:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] use only area file in Benders (#960)

adequacy_criterion --> outerloop
area file -->Benders
---
 src/cpp/benders/factories/BendersFactory.cpp | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/cpp/benders/factories/BendersFactory.cpp b/src/cpp/benders/factories/BendersFactory.cpp
index b776abc1c..b416dbe03 100644
--- a/src/cpp/benders/factories/BendersFactory.cpp
+++ b/src/cpp/benders/factories/BendersFactory.cpp
@@ -183,7 +183,9 @@ BendersMainFactory::ProcessCriterionInput() {
   const auto fpath = std::filesystem::path(options_.INPUTROOT) /
                      options_.OUTER_LOOP_OPTION_FILE;
   // if adequacy_criterion.yml is provided read it
-  if (std::filesystem::exists(fpath)) {
+  if ((method_ == BENDERSMETHOD::BENDERS_OUTERLOOP ||
+       method_ == BENDERSMETHOD::BENDERS_BY_BATCH_OUTERLOOP) &&
+      std::filesystem::exists(fpath)) {
     return Benders::Criterion::OuterLoopInputFromYaml().Read(fpath);
   }
   // else compute criterion for all areas!