Perhaps try this...
Url url = MyClass.class.getResource("someshapefile");
File shapefile = new File( url.toURI() );
FileDataStore dataStore = FileDataStoreFinder.getDataStore(file);
Michael
On 1 August 2011 09:42, Tanim Islam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am trying to read in an ESRI shapefile, located as a resource in my jar
> archive. So I think this is the ShapeFileReader class that implements the
> instantiation of the appropriate geotools objects from the ESRI shapefile.
>
> Tanim Islam
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Tanim S. Islam <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > In that case, how does one use an InputStream (rather than File or URL)
>> > as
>> > an initialization parameter?
>>
>> Wait, are you talking about using a input stream in the existing data
>> stores,
>> or writing a new one of your own?
>> In the latter case you just have to declare a Param of type input stream
>> in your datastore factory.
>> If you want to give a InputStream to a existing store, sorry, no way to do
>> that
>> directly.
>> One option is to save the contents of the stream into a temporary file and
>> then
>> point the store to it.
>>
>> More details please. What is the store you're talking about, and what are
>> the contents of the stream?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>
>>
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