Mind, I may be missing something but the sld attached to 
<http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-2053> has the filters referring a 
"Value" feature property but the inline feature on it has no such property?

Andrea Aime wrote:
> Gabriel Roldan ha scritto:
>> Hi Andrea,
>>
>> the converter function is a really good idea, and just what I was 
>> thinking about when reading over the problem. One thing though, is 
>> that the way it is exposed seems like too java centric, perhaps it 
>> would be nice to create a function per primitive type (say, asInt(), 
>> asDouble(), etc), and avoid the java class names as argument? It is 
>> just because having a function tied to the underlying programming 
>> language in the interoperability protocol seems a bit odd.
> 
> I would not be too concerned about the "interoperability" part, OGC
> gave filter functions a syntax level interoperability, but since
> they did not specify a list of well known ones, the interoperability
> potential ends there.
> 
> My suggestion of being able to specify int/double/long/... (primitives)
> was actually a way to make the converting function more amenable to the
> normal user. Having functions like asInt/asDouble is better from a user
> point of view, but requires writing a number of functions, and does not
> leave out the need for a generic convert function, since the specific
> ones cannot cover every case.
> 
> But instead of making a converter that does handle java.lang and
> primitive names to turn them into classes, I can as well roll a handful
> of functions that actually use the generic one as their superclass,
> and roll:
> asInteger
> asLong
> asFloat
> asDouble
> asBoolean
> asString
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea


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