We do have getInfo() which we can add to. I would prefer to use an open end 
Map/Key combo until we settle down on what is needed (much like how we treat 
Parameter.metadata right now.

Jody

On 22/04/2010, at 11:27 PM, Andrea Aime wrote:

> Andrea Aime ha scritto:
>> This is similar to Jody's point. However, we don't have anything like
>> that for createSchema and updateSchema either.
>> Such a capabilities API should probably also provide some hints on how
>> type and attribute names are transformed by createSchema to make it
>> possible to create a data transfer tool (which today is hard to 
>> implement as Oracle and SDE tend to mangle the provided names).
> 
> Other things that would be interesting to have in a capabilities API:
> - list of actual types supported by the store (does it do Timestamps?
>   Time? Or just Date? What about byte[]?)
> - can it get any hint to better specify the underlying storage type?
>   Something like JDBC_NATIVE_TYPE in the attribute descriptor to
>   actually specify that you want a CHAR(20) and not a VARCHAR(20)
>   or that you want a timestamp with time zone?
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 
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