Jody Garnett wrote: > Erik Løvlie wrote: >> Hi, I have a question regarding this: will the filters in 2.4 be able >> to deal with any kind of literal values, not just String, numeric >> types, Boolean, Geometry and Date? >> > That is correct. >> We have a need to use any class for attributes, and using a literal >> expression filter in the style checking that attribute. Looking at >> the implementation (org.geotools.filter.LiteralExpressionImpl) it >> really does some unnecessary things, like casting from Object to >> String before calling equals (it also claims to support only Double, >> Integer and String, which is not true). If it just called equals >> directly, it would automatically support any literal value which >> implemented the equals method. >> > The Filter specification is mostly based on Strings (so "1", "1.0" are > considered equal to 1.0 ). You will find the GeoTools 2.4 implementation > much improved. > > Jody > Good to hear :)
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