David Gadbois wrote:
> Hi. I am using GeoTools 2.4.4. I have a ReferencedEnvelope, and I am
> trying to create a org.opengis.filter.spatial.Contains filter to see if
> a feature's geometry contains the envelope.
A RefernecedEnvelope is a bounding box; there is a special optimized
filter for handling bounding boxes - the BBOX filter.
> I tried:
>
> ReferencedEnvelope bounds = ...;
> FilterFactory2 ff =
> CommonFactoryFinder.getFilterFactory2(GeoTools.getDefaultHints());
> PropertyName propertyName = ff.property("the_geom");
> Literal geometry = ff.literal(bounds);
> Filter filter = ff.contains(propertyName, geometry);
>
> But this fails trying to encode the envelope. What is the preferred way of
> converting the envelope into some geometrical object that can be encoded?
>
If you need to do this ever (you don't because you are going to use the
bbox filter right now) you can produce a polygon by considering the four
corners of the bounding box.
Jody
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