Thank you for your answers Andrea. Landon
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Andrea Aime <aa...@opengeo.org> wrote: > Sunburned Surveyor ha scritto: >> >> I've been looking over the GeoTools 2.5 Javadoc for the code to access >> ESRI Shapefiles, and I've got a couple of quick questions: >> >> Question 1: >> I know the typical usage pattern is to obtain a ShapefileDataStore >> from a ShapefileDataStoreFactory, and then use the methods of the >> ShapefileDataStore to access Geotools Feature objects from the >> underlying Shapefiles. If I just want access to the underlying Shape >> (feature geometry) and Object (feature attribute values) data, can I >> just create my ShpFiles object and create my ShapefileReader and >> DbfFileReader directly? > > Yes, you can. As far as I remember you're giving up spatial index > support if you do (but maybe you simply do not need it?) > >> Question 2: >> What type of Object is returned by the ShapefileReader.Record.Shape >> method? Is it a JTS Geometry or something else? What is the quickest >> way to get this object converted to a JTS Geometry? > > All the GeoTools code still assumes JTS geometries everywhere, it's just > the feature api that became more general. So the code should be still > generating a JTS geometry by default. > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
