Re: [Geotools-devel] Pluggable SimpleFeature Serialization

2014-04-29 Thread Jody Garnett
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Andrew Hulbert wrote: > Forgot to ask...since you mentioned it...is there anything that you > thought should be a candidate for replacing the feature type representation? > Not sure I understand the question. If I was doing a tutorial to day I would probably do

Re: [Geotools-devel] Pluggable SimpleFeature Serialization

2014-04-29 Thread Andrew Hulbert
Forgot to ask...since you mentioned it...is there anything that you thought should be a candidate for replacing the feature type representation? On 04/29/2014 03:20 PM, Andrew Hulbert wrote: I like the WKT name...I do remember now seeing that in your tutorial (thanks for those by the way). By

Re: [Geotools-devel] Pluggable SimpleFeature Serialization

2014-04-29 Thread Andrew Hulbert
I like the WKT name...I do remember now seeing that in your tutorial (thanks for those by the way). By feature type representation do you mean the "name1:Integer,name2:Float" syntax? One thing that we run into with some of the cloud toolkits is that they don't allow spaces or dashes for field

Re: [Geotools-devel] Pluggable SimpleFeature Serialization

2014-04-29 Thread Jody Garnett
> We're interested in creating pluggable serialization framework that > allows developers to choose between avro, text, and other formats of > interest (e.g. json) so that we can share the AvroSimpleFeature with > others and register serializers via SPI similar to DataSources. > > On another note,

[Geotools-devel] Pluggable SimpleFeature Serialization

2014-04-29 Thread Andrew Hulbert
Hi all, I've implemented a new method of serializing SimpleFeatures using Apache Avro (http://avro.apache.org/) that utilizes dynamic Avro schema generation and a binary serialization. This results in smaller data size but, more importantly, faster feature serialization and deserialization tha