Sunburned Surveyor ha scritto: > I had a few minutes tonight to sit down and look over the API docs for > the ShapeFileDataStore and related classes included in GeoTools 2.2.3. > (I'm hoping to use this code as part of my FeatureCache for OpenJUMP.) I > have a few of questions I would like to ask the GeoTools developers: > > [1] What implementation of the FeatureReader interface is returned by > the ShapefileDataStore getFeatureReader() method?
Various, depending on what it's doing (shaving off some attributes or not, etc). You should not be concerned with the implementation, that's what interfaces are there for. Abide to the FeatureReader interface contract and you should be fine. > [2] Is the ShapefileDataStore currently being used by UDig? UDig is using the indexed version as far as I know (a spin off of the original shapefile datastore that uses spatial indexes to speed up queries... and sometimes, due to bugs, to slow then down significantly...) > [3] Are there any major changes planned for this class, or for the > FeatureReader interface in the near future? Not as far as I know. It's probably the class that received less changes in the last year. > [4] If I put together some documentation that explained how to use the > GeoTools ShapeFileData store class, would there be an appropriate place > for it at GeoTools, and how would I go about contributing it? Hum, we have some wiki space for user docs, and Jody is trying to keep them sane. Can you send these docs to the ml, or if too big, attach them to a Jira issue? Cheers Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
