Hello people

I heard that the OracleDataStore was now brand new and nice, so I
decided to try it out. However, I got into some trouble trying to put
some data from a shapefile into the database.

So, I'd like to ask some questions:

1. Is Oracle still officially "unsupported" (meaning we don't get to
expect too much out of it)?

2. I'm using geotools 2.5-SNAPSHOT, is that really the recommended place
for trying out things with Oracle?

3. Just to make sure: is this the correct maven pom snippet to use?
<dependency>
   <groupId>ojdbc</groupId>
   <artifactId>ojdbc</artifactId>
   <version>14</version>
</dependency>

4. If everything I did was correct, then.. I ended up finding some
issues and couldn't get things to work:

4.1 It always fails when I try to create a table (e.g., when creating a
schema) that has String (VARCHAR) columns. Actually, we tracked it down
to the class org.geotools.data.oracle.SqlStatementEnconder, which simply
translates Strings to VARCHAR. But Oracle seems to require a size
parameter, only accepting SQL statements with something like
VARCHAR(10), etc. It may also be a good idea to use VARCHAR2, since that
is what Oracle recommends. Anyway: am I missing something or is this
really happening to everybody else?

4.2 After solving that we were able to create a schema and see tables 
being created OK in the Oracle database. However, we still got into some 
trouble: although everything seems to be there, we keep getting a 
SchemaNotFoundException when trying to get the FeatureSource back, I 
don't know exactly why. Even stranger, calling 
OracleDataStore.getTypeNames() gives me back 4292 (!) type names even 
for an empty DataStore (4293 after the successful creation of a schema). 
Any ideas?

Thanks for any help
Milton

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Milton Jonathan
Grupo GIS e Meio Ambiente
Tecgraf/PUC-Rio
Tel: +55-21-3527-2502


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