+1 +1 also on escalating the logging level. End users (this usually means deployers to Geoserver) should never have to worry about anything below Warning level, and things at warning level or above should only be things they really need to care about.
rob On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Andrea Aime<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > looking into some complaints (some in jira, some others in private > mails) about Oracle NG not being able to deal with tables with > BLOBS or other unsupported types I noticed that in fact the old > JDBC and new JDBC datastores have different behaviour that > can be perceived as a regression from a user point of view: > - the old datastores just ignored columns they could not recognize, > see JDBC1DataStore line 1203-1215 > - the new datastores throw a solid exception instead > > This means people upgrading will see working tables not working > anymore due to unrecognized types. > I think the previous behavior was preferable, thought I would > log the fact the column is ignored at a higher level than FINER > (warning seems more appropriate). > > Alternatively, the behavior could be user controlled, and have > a "ignore unrecognized columns" flag that is enabled by default. > > One thing that the old datastores did not get fully right was > the relationship between ignoring a column and making the feature > type read only: if the ignored column is not nullable and it > has no default value, write operations will fail. > It would be better to set up a flag in that case that makes > the JDBCDataStore return a feature source in that case. > > Anyways, this is less critical, I think it would be better to > solve the above regression part before releasing GeoServer 1.7.6 > instead given it's (rightfully imho) perceived as a regression > from the users pov (it makes NG datastore not a drop in replacement > for old ones). > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
