Two quick ideas for you: - the get/put client properties are designed for this kind of use - the parsers (and I think postgis?) also set appropriate information into each JTSGeometry
Andrea Aime wrote: > Now, the most natural place seems the GeometryDescritor userData > structure, using a NATIVE_SRID key. What do you think? Perfect :-) > How does one set that field? We could have > SimpleFeatureTypeBuilder.add(name, binding, srid) add the > value. I would prefer if we can construct the object as normal; and add your special key after the fact. > Unfortunately that would blow up with an SRID CRS.decode cannot handle > (that's a bug and has to be fixed, spatial databases > such as Oracle have plenty of srid codes that are not in the EPSG > database). > As an alternative, we could expose a > SimpleFeatureTypeBuilder.setAttributeUserData(Object, value) that > piles up the user data attribute for the next attribute. > I'm ok with both of them I do not think we need to modify the builder at all; this is something (specific to your data store) that you are doing after the builder has completed. > Where do we declare NATIVE_SRID? In JDBCDataStore? If that's the sole > user of that user data, it may be a good place. > Yet I have the impression this field might be useful for other data > stores as well. GeometryDescriptor then? Ugh... > that would be a GeoApi change. Any better idea? The idea is to use the client properties for this kind of work (and where there is a lot of common ground) break out an API around proven functionality. Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
