Re: [Geotools-devel] Features and Features redux and making Features

2006-07-31 Thread Jody Garnett
>> Which class is deprecated? The deprecation was removed as far as I know >> (it was added when I thought the Feature Model was >> straightened out for GeoTools 2.1, but I could not make sense of the >> alternative so the deprecation should of been removed). >> > ==> The deprecation is in

Re: [Geotools-devel] Features and Features redux and making Features

2006-07-31 Thread Adrian Custer
Thanks for the clarifications jody. On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 11:05 +0200, Jody Garnett wrote: > Adrian Custer wrote: > > The approach seems to have two branches, via FeatureTypeFactory > > or via FeatureTypeBuilder but neither seems complete. > > > > AttributeTypeFa

Re: [Geotools-devel] Features and Features redux and making Features

2006-07-31 Thread Jody Garnett
Adrian Custer wrote: > Hey all, > > Making Features is a mess in 2.2.x ; I'd like to resolve this. > > > >From the Javadocs, both GeoAPI and Geotools appear to provide approaches > to building Features but both are problematic. > > 1) Does the GeoAPI approach even work? > No - there is

Re: [Geotools-devel] Features and Features redux and making Features

2006-07-31 Thread Jody Garnett
Adrian Custer wrote: > Thanks Andrea, > FeatureTypes... did indeed clean up the deprecation. > > To everyone, > We need to have a meta discussion about factories, not just for > features but to bring the referencing factories inline and have a > standard policy. I have had this discussion, and

Re: [Geotools-devel] Features and Features redux and making Features

2006-07-31 Thread Andrea Aime
Justin Deoliveira ha scritto: > Jody and I spent a lot of time coming up with this api on FM as andrea > stated. In the process came up with some decent guidelines as to what a > factory should do vs a builder. > > However with FM having no path to trunk this doesn't help us much. Hum, can you

Re: [Geotools-devel] Features and Features redux and making Features

2006-07-30 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Jody and I spent a lot of time coming up with this api on FM as andrea stated. In the process came up with some decent guidelines as to what a factory should do vs a builder. However with FM having no path to trunk this doesn't help us much. It would be possible to port the feature factories +

Re: [Geotools-devel] Features and Features redux and making Features

2006-07-30 Thread Andrea Aime
Adrian Custer ha scritto: > Thanks Andrea, > FeatureTypes... did indeed clean up the deprecation. > > Cool > To everyone, > We need to have a meta discussion about factories, not just for > features but to bring the referencing factories inline and have a > standard policy. THIS IS TRUE EVE

Re: [Geotools-devel] Features and Features redux and making Features

2006-07-30 Thread Adrian Custer
Thanks Andrea, FeatureTypes... did indeed clean up the deprecation. To everyone, We need to have a meta discussion about factories, not just for features but to bring the referencing factories inline and have a standard policy. THIS IS TRUE EVEN IF THE ULTIMATE NIRVANA IS CONTAINERS. We have

Re: [Geotools-devel] Features and Features redux and making Features

2006-07-30 Thread Andrea Aime
Adrian Custer ha scritto: > Hey all, > > Making Features is a mess in 2.2.x ; I'd like to resolve this. > > > >From the Javadocs, both GeoAPI and Geotools appear to provide approaches > to building Features but both are problematic. > > 1) Does the GeoAPI approach even work? > This

[Geotools-devel] Features and Features redux and making Features

2006-07-30 Thread Adrian Custer
Hey all, Making Features is a mess in 2.2.x ; I'd like to resolve this. >From the Javadocs, both GeoAPI and Geotools appear to provide approaches to building Features but both are problematic. 1) Does the GeoAPI approach even work? This approach uses AttributeDescriptors, are t