On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Gabriel Roldan <grol...@opengeo.org> wrote: > Hi Andrea, > > I think this makes for a very welcomed contribution. > > Of particular interest to me is the ability to "reshape" shapefiles. > It's actually something that's been rounding my mind for the last week > anticipating its need for another project. What do you think about the > idea of having a (yet another) shapefile sidecar file that somehow > defines the schema of the shapefile? The use case is exporting a > feature type to shapefile without loosing type accuracy and/or > attribute names.
I see. Well, sure, why not, I guess we can add this ability inside the ShapefileDataStoreFactory, if the sidecar file is there it would first build the plain shapefile and then wrap it. Hm... actually there is a bit of a show stopper though. The wrapper is meant for featuresource/featurestore, it actually builds a data store too but right now it does not have the full capabilities that a store should have, in particular the readers and writers method cannot be implemented against the feature source abilities because they take a Transaction per method, while the feature source/store have a transaction as a field. Now that I think about it though, it's just a matter of grabbing the DataStore off the FeatureSource and fall back on those methods. Long story short, to get where you want I guess the following is needed: - fix the reshape store so that the missing methods are filled in - push the module into supported land, so that shapefile can depend on it - devise a file format that can hold the transforming definitions, use it as a sidecar for the shapefile Next weekend I'll merge the store into the official GeoTools repo Cheers Andrea -- == Our support, Your Success! Visit http://opensdi.geo-solutions.it for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
