I would say just continue on... as long as no actual functionality 
changes i don't see the need for an official review.

2c.

-Justin

On 4/30/10 8:50 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
> Jody Garnett ha scritto:
>> As promised in my status update earlier in the week .... I am indeed
>> causing trouble. Andrea asked me to pass on an "out of the pool"
>> email while compile errors are fixed on geoserver trunk.
>>
>> So far the compile errors seem to be cases where geotools now expects
>> a SimpleFeatureCollection to be provided; we should be able to tone
>> that down a bit but need to hunt down the instances...
>
> Just a heads up to everybody. I made a local git branch to perform the
> changes to SimpleFeatureCollection, SimpleFEatureSource and so on and...
> the patch is a wopping 580KB already (I'm missing 5 classes that still
> do not compile).
>
> The process followed so far was to do a search and replace of:
> FeatureSource<SimpleFeatureType, SimpleFeature>  ->  SimpleFeatureSource
> (the same for store and locking)
> FeatureCollection<SimpleFeatureType, SimpleFeature>  ->
> SimplleFeatureCollection
> FeatureIterator<SimpleFeature>  ->  SimpleFeatureIterator
>
> and then do a mass "organize imports" to fix all the missing imports.
> I did not change the main GEoSErver feature source wrappers, those
> are still generic.
> Then hand fix what the above process did not fix already.
>
> None of the above changes makes GeoServer more married to simple
> features that what it is already (afaik), but since we're talking
> about a class and not about generics anymore it makes things a tad
> more explicit, e.g., the compiler will not provide warning anymore,
> but real compile rrors. E.g., in the code there was a ton of:
>
> FEatureCollection<SimpleFEatureType, SimpleFeature>  coll =
> (FeatureCollection) whatever;
>
> In retrospect I believe this makes it easier to spot the parts of
> GeoServer that are actually complex feature ready.
>
> As you can imagine it makes for a lot of changes... and a massive patch
> (the mass "organize imports" adds quite a bit of unrelated ones, but
> at the same time going through all the files that were changed and
> make a manual one was going to be crazy... in some places the
> old imports are legitimate since the code was already complex feature
> ready).
>
> At the same time, GS trunk is not building now.
>
> Does anyone want to suggest a different approach or review the patch?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>


-- 
Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.

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