Hi all, these days I've been working on resurrecting the OGR datastore functionality. It is now compiling and passing tests.
There are two main issues that needs solving to move forward and push the datastore into supported land: - synchronization with imageio-ext - exposed factories Keeping the datastore in synch with imageio-ext is kind of important for any application that might use both, that is going to be possible only if the two share the same jars and the same native libraries. The datastore has been fixed and ported towards GDAL 1.7.1, afaik imageio-ext is going in the same direction? We have to agree on a groupId/artifact for the GDAL 1.7.1 java bindings jar and push it onto some repo. The current GDAL 1.7.1 build is simple enough, I hope that will make it easier for people to build their own customized OGR that still works with our stores/coverage readers (GDAL/OGR supports a ton of formats and we cannot really build them all). In particular I'm thinking about the GRASS formats, which I would very much like to see but that I understand would be a nuisance to build on all platforms (assuming imageio-ext keeps on building the native libraries, that is). The other issue is about the factories. OGR exposes a ton of formats, at the same time we're not sure which one are actually built into the set at hand. At the moment there is just a generic, two params one: - ogr driver name - ogr source name (whatever that is, it's format dependent) Not sure if we want to roll out format specific ones. I'm kind of weary going the "one factory per format" approach as I have no way to test them all, and no time to figure out the params for each one. I guess we can add specific ones as the need arises, and keep the generic one as a fallback? Let me know Cheers Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
