As I recall just importing the basic geometries from a MapInfo file wasn't
too hard but there is a whole bunch of styling and other junk in there too
that people wanted to read in.
Plus whoever was doing it would need a MapInfo licence to generate/check
input files.
So not impossible but not cheap either.
Ian
On 18 April 2018 at 13:56, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:
> Hi Jesper,
> you can take over maintainership of the BridJ module and fix the build, or
> sponsor
> someone to do it for you.
>
> Writing mapinfo support in java would be best of course, but also believe
> it's a sizable effort
> (take a look at the OGR mapinfo source code, something similar would have
> to be built
> for GeoTools, along with a good amount of tests).
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Jesper Steen Møller <jes...@selskabet.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi list
>>
>> Ugh - removing OGR support will make it impossible for Java tools to
>> access MapInfo files. We're using BridJ for now, as it's easier to get the
>> GDAL bits without the corresponding JNI shared object.
>>
>> Is there anything I could do to help? How big a job is building MapInfo
>> support in Java?
>>
>> -Jesper
>>
>> On 18 Apr 2018, at 14.30, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> any feedback? If not, I plan to remove the module sometimes soon.
>> (mind, the JNI module will be broken just the same at runtime, but won't
>> fail the build unless the JNI native lib is around, which is normally not)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ben,
>>> I've already inquired to Even about those failures, looks like signature
>>> of a few methods changes in OGR 1.11.
>>> Both JNI and BridJ bindings fail, the difference is that BridJ does not
>>> need the "bridge" JNI native library so it
>>> runs most of the time, while the JNI one skip the tests.
>>>
>>> Now, with something dynamic as BridJ I guess one could check the OGR
>>> version, have native bindings for
>>> the various methods overloads, and call the right ones, but for the JNI
>>> case I'm not sure what to do.
>>>
>>> This notion of "buliding against a knows GDAL version" is not a match
>>> for the way we do things, GeoTools/GeoServer
>>> are just dropped on a machine and the find whatever they find, there is
>>> no notion of packaging against a specific
>>> version like with the native packages.
>>>
>>> All in all I'm tempted to just drop support for the OGR data store, at
>>> least of the BridJ part, it's getting too much
>>> work to maintain and there are other things having a higher priority,
>>> and to be honest, I have never used it
>>> for a real project (I created the first version of it in my spare time
>>> as a "good gesture" in the OSGeo familiy,
>>> but never got traction).
>>>
>>> Discussion with Even follows.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Andrea
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
>>> Date: Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:27 PM
>>> Subject: Binary incompatible change in OGR JNI?
>>> To: Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Even,
>>> recently I have had reports of some failures in the GeoTools bridge to
>>> OGR.
>>> Looking into it I've found this build error:
>>>
>>> Warning 1: Field name of width 255 truncated to 254.
>>> Tests run: 27, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 1.882
>>> sec <<< FAILURE! - in org.geotools.data.ogr.jni.JniOGRDataStoreTest
>>> testGeometryFilters(org.geotools.data.ogr.jni.JniOGRDataStoreTest)
>>> Time elapsed: 0.014 sec <<< ERROR!
>>> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: org.gdal.ogr.ogrJNI.Layer_SetS
>>> patialFilter(JLorg/gdal/ogr/Layer;JLorg/gdal/ogr/Geometry;)V
>>> at org.gdal.ogr.ogrJNI.Layer_SetSpatialFilter(Native Method)
>>> at org.gdal.ogr.Layer.SetSpatialFilter(Layer.java:89)
>>> at org.geotools.data.ogr.jni.JniOGR.LayerSetSpatialFilter(JniOG
>>> R.java:257)
>>> at org.geotools.data.ogr.OGRFeatureSource.setLayerFilters(OGRFe
>>> atureSource.java:128)
>>> at org.geotools.data.ogr.OGRFeatureSource.getCountInternal(OGRF
>>> eatureSource.java:158)
>>> at org.geotools.data.ogr.OGRFeatureStore.getCountInternal(OGRFe
>>> atureStore.java:109)
>>> at org.geotools.data.store.ContentFeatureSource.getCount(Conten
>>> tFeatureSource.java:507)
>>> at org.geotools.data.store.ContentFeatureCollection.size(Conten
>>> tFeatureCollection.java:231)
>>> at org.geotools.data.ogr.OGRDataStoreTest.testGeometryFilters(O
>>> GRDataStoreTest.java:750)
>>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAcce
>>> ssorImpl.java:62)
>>> at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMe
>>> thodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
>>> at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:176)
>>> at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:141)
>>> at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:122)
>>> at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:142)
>>> at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:125)
>>> at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:129)
>>> at org.geotools.data.ogr.TestCaseSupport.run(TestCaseSupport.java:113)
>>> at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:255)
>>> at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:250)
>>> at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit38ClassRunner.run(JUnit38Cla
>>> ssRunner.java:84)
>>> at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUni
>>> t4Provider.java:264)
>>> at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestS
>>> et(JUnit4Provider.java:153)
>>> at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit
>>> 4Provider.java:124)
>>> at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.invokeProvider
>>> InSameClassLoader(ForkedBooter.java:200)
>>> at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInPro
>>> cess(ForkedBooter.java:153)
>>> at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBoo
>>> ter.java:103)
>>>
>>> Are you by any chance aware of such changes in the OGR JNI interface?
>>> If you have to look, no problem, I'll do it, just wanted to see if it
>>> rings a bell for you.
>>>
>>> Ah, context, the store was developed against 1.9, linux distros are
>>> currently shipping 1.11(.3)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Andrea
>>>
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>
> Andrea Aime
>
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