On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Torben Barsballe <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> One warning - Last time I interacted with the CSV datastore (in March) and
> GeoServer importer, it looked like it was still missing a few things. It
> seems the CSV datastore does not handle geometry columns especially well.
> CSV Import via the GeoServer importer UI only supports CSVs as lists of
> attributes (no geometry).
>

This is because the code makes no attempt to figure out which strategy to
use, it could just parse the file once to figure out the best strategy, and
then again to actually
import it. That's what I did for the GML reader, where there is no good way
to just read the headers and guess the GML version, sometimes the geometry
type, and its CRS (under the common case that the schema is nowhere to be
found)


> Via the Importer REST API you can specify Lat/Lon columns. Support for WKT
> columns exists, but there is no way of actually importing/specifiying
> columns as WKT as far as I can see, although this might also be doable
> using the REST API.
>

Hum... I don't know, never tried. The example I added in the docs indeed
uses a transform (post datastore read) to
make points out of lat/lon, even if the store should be perfectly happy to
read that directly as points (if we just told
it to use the right strategy).


>
> A custom config panel seems like a very good idea, and should include some
> way to specify the Geometry column(s) (Lat/Lon or WKT).
>

Yep, if you look at my CSV store patch, I exposed already the relevant
fields along with the namespace param


>
> Given that Property datastores
> <http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/data/app-schema/data-stores.html#property-file>
> are supported in core GeoServer, it would make just as much sense to also
> include the CSV datastore in core GeoServer.
>

That's what I was thinking too

Cheers
Andrea


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