Well, Problem solved. I simply switched to String-Color-Representation instead of Java-Objects.
Best Julian Am Wed, 4 Nov 2015 13:56:51 +0100 schrieb Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Julian Hagenauer > <julian.hagena...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a colum named "color" in my FeatureType which stores > > instances of Color.class. Now, I am trying to save my > > FeatureCollection of this type to a Shapefile and get the following > > exception: > > > > java.io.IOException: Unable to write column color : java.awt.Color > > at > > > > org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore.createDbaseHeader(ShapefileDataStore.java:365) > > at > > > > org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore.createSchema(ShapefileDataStore.java:262) > > at > > > > org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore.createSchema(ShapefileDataStore.java:71) > > > > My questions: > > Is it ok to store more complex objects like java.awt.Color in a > > column? > > No, DBF cannot store colors, you won't be able to get them back > anyways > > > > Is it somehow possible to save these? > > > > Treat them as strings, usual HTML hex encoding, e..g 0xFFAA00 > > How can I convert the objects to something simple like a string (maybe > > a hex-colorcode) before saving the FeatureCollection? > > > > I guess you can write your own feature collection decorator extending > FeatureCollectionDecorator > > Cheers > Andrea > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ GeoTools-GT2-Users mailing list GeoTools-GT2-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
