Re: [Geotools-devel] need for a null geometry object

2007-12-14 Thread David Zwiers
I think it's been there for a while -- atleast since 1.6 isEmpty() is an abstract method of Geometry. David On Dec 14, 2007 6:16 AM, Justin Deoliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > > That would work great!!. Which version of JTS supports this? In the > version geotools is using, Geom

Re: [Geotools-devel] need for a null geometry object

2007-12-14 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Hi David, That would work great!!. Which version of JTS supports this? In the version geotools is using, GeometryCollection has isEmpty(), but i cant see the equivalent in Geometry. Was it something that was recently added? -Justin David Zwiers wrote: > What about using an empty geometry? That i

Re: [Geotools-devel] need for a null geometry object

2007-12-14 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Jody Garnett wrote: > Jesse had the same request from me last month; how does. JTS.NULL sound > for a Geometry subclass "Null Object" ? A static object wont work in my case. It needs to be something i can instantiate so i can hack its user data on an instance by instance basis. > ---

Re: [Geotools-devel] need for a null geometry object

2007-12-13 Thread David Zwiers
What about using an empty geometry? That is currently supported in JTS. On Dec 13, 2007 9:32 AM, Andrea Aime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Deoliveira ha scritto: > ... > > Indeed. My idea would be to subclass each of the geometry types. So > > creating a class called NullPoint, NullLineStri

Re: [Geotools-devel] need for a null geometry object

2007-12-13 Thread Andrea Aime
Justin Deoliveira ha scritto: ... > Indeed. My idea would be to subclass each of the geometry types. So > creating a class called NullPoint, NullLineString, etc... that > implemented the NullGeometry interface. Then no existing code should run > into any of the exception cases which arise when some

Re: [Geotools-devel] need for a null geometry object

2007-12-13 Thread Jody Garnett
Jesse had the same request from me last month; how does. JTS.NULL sound for a Geometry subclass "Null Object" ? > So... my thought is to create an interface called "NullGeometry" or > something like that. That way in the encoder bindings i can do an > instance of check and encode it as an "xlinked

Re: [Geotools-devel] need for a null geometry object

2007-12-13 Thread Andrea Aime
Justin Deoliveira ha scritto: > Hi all, > > I am emailing the list hoping to get some feedback for an idea that i > have. First a bit of context. I am working on the wfs xlink > implementation for OWS-5. One of the requirements is to be able to > "xlink" geometries. > > Now... i know the proper w

Re: [Geotools-devel] need for a null geometry object

2007-12-13 Thread Justin Deoliveira
> What baout using the new feature model userdata instead? > Anyways, yeah, userdata is available on Feature only so it annoying to > store attributes related metadata there... > THe problem is that i need to do teh check in the GEometryTypeBinding, which needs a geometry to work. It would be a b

[Geotools-devel] need for a null geometry object

2007-12-13 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Hi all, I am emailing the list hoping to get some feedback for an idea that i have. First a bit of context. I am working on the wfs xlink implementation for OWS-5. One of the requirements is to be able to "xlink" geometries. Now... i know the proper way to do this is with associations in the new