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Re: Problem with reusing a featuretype (was: Re: [udig-devel] two questions about using shapefiles for uncommon things)

Just to be clear it is the name of the feature type that determines if the featuretype can be added. The feature type can have the same signature.

But it cannot be the exact same feature type object. You do need another one.

You can copy between feature types but in the iterator you have to convert between the two feature types.

Jesse


On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:40 AM, Adrian Custer wrote:

Hey,

The issue is not with your use of featuretype which is reasonable.

The issue is with the in-memory data store, *Simple*MemoryDataStore. The data store was made to be *very* simple, so simple that it is using the featuretype to separate the different kinds of things it has in storage.
This implies a limitation: you can't create two resources with exactly
the same type.

An easy solution is to keep the featuretype, changing only the name.
Another solution is to save each layer to disk as you make it before
putting another into the memory data store. Another solution is to write your own "MyNotSoSimpleMemoryDataStore". Another ... you get the idea.

--all the best


On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 12:00 +0200, tony.roth@xxxxxx wrote:
HI. If it's the intention that one cannot reuse a featuretype in the
way I tried, then it's ok. I just thought that a featuretype is
nothing more than a pattern for features and a ressource a container
for features of a certain type. 1:n relation instead of 1:1.

@adrian: Yes I can save the first ressource, perhaps it's the best
way.

Thank you!
tony roth



        Von: Jesse Eichar jeichar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

        What I was trying to say is that you can't have the same
        resource
        twice in the same datastore,  if you change the name it is no
        longer
        the same so you can change the name of the resource.

        Jesse


        On Mar 26, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Adrian Custer wrote:

Hello,

Yes, I think your second assumption is correct: you probably
        can't
create two resources with the same feature type in the
SimpleMemoryDataStore. (I say "I think" because I'm
        remembering this
vaguely from some time ago.). However, Jesse or others will
        confirm
this
when they get to work West North American Coast time.

Can you save the first resource to an in memory database or
        to disk?

--adrian


On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 09:51 +0200, tony.roth@xxxxxx wrote:
Hi,
no, that's not correct. I create exactly one feature type
        with the
name and then I want to create two resources (later: two
        layer) of
this type. It's like

FeatureTypeBuilder featureBuilder
= FeatureTypeBuilder.newInstance(myFeatureTypeName);
// ... add attributes to this type
FeatureType featureType = featureBuilder.getFeatureType();
resource =
CatalogPlugin.getDefault().getLocalCatalog
().createTemporaryResource(featureType);
resource2 =
CatalogPlugin.getDefault().getLocalCatalog
().createTemporaryResource(featureType);

The second resource could not be build (see exception
        below). Either
it is not allowed to create more than one resource of a
featureType or
the implementaion in udig has a bug. I think it can be a
        common
usecase to have different layer containing features of the
        same
featuretype.

tony roth


        Von: Jesse Eichar jeichar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

        Hi Tony,

        I think that the problem is that the two feature
        types have
        the same
        name so the second can't be created.

        Try something like:

        FeatureTypeBuilder builder=new
        FeatureTypeBuilder();
        builder.importType( oldType );
        builder.setName( "newname" );
        builder.getFeatureType();

        Jesse


        On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:08 AM, tony.roth@xxxxxx
        wrote:



Von: Jesse Eichar
On 20-Feb-07, at 4:38 AM, tony.roth@xxxxxx wrote:
Hi list,
in our project we are using jira plugins in our eclipse
        rcp
application. It is used for the visualization of
        different
facilities
on a map. The map is delivered by a wms server, the
        facilities are
stored
 in a database (mysql). To show these facilities a
        temporary
shape file
is created. It was a funny thing writing mixed up big
        and
        little
endian
 variables with java but finally it works :-) (yes, I
        suppose
somewhere
 an api / lib exists but.. where?)
i) Is this the canonic way? Or is it somehow possible to
        create an
 in-memory layer instead of writing a shape file?
There are code snippets for just this sort of thing at:


        http://svn.geotools.org/udig/branches/1.1.x/udig/tutorials/
net.refractions
.udig.code.examples/src/net/refractions/udig/code/examples/

I have a problem with reusing a generated featuretype:

At first I create the featuretype (this is done exactly
        once):

FeatureTypeBuilder featureBuilder =
FeatureTypeBuilder.newInstance(myFeatureTypeName);


        featureBuilder.addType(AttributeTypeFactory.newAttributeType
("geometry",
Point.class,true, Integer.MAX_VALUE, null,
DefaultGeographicCRS.WGS84));

        featureBuilder.addType
(AttributeTypeFactory.newAttributeType("foo",
String.class, true, Integer.MAX_VALUE));

        featureBuilder.addType
(AttributeTypeFactory.newAttributeType("bar",
String.class, true, Integer.MAX_VALUE));
FeatureType featureType = featureBuilder.getFeatureType();


then I create the ressource:

resource =

        CatalogPlugin.getDefault().getLocalCatalog
().createTemporaryResource
(featureType);


I itereate through a list of values and add features to
        the
        ressource:

GeometryFactory fac = new GeometryFactory();
FeatureStore fs = resource.resolve(FeatureStore.class,
        null);

for (ListItem item : list) {
 Coordinate pointCoordinate = new Coordinate(item.get...);
 Point point = fac.createPoint(pointCoordinate);
 String foo = item.get...
 String bar = item.get...
 Feature feature = featureType.create(new
        Object[]{point,foo,bar});
 fs.addFeatures(DataUtilities.collection(new
        Feature[]{feature}));
}

finally I create the layer
LayerFactory layerFactory = map.getLayerFactory();
Layer layer = layerFactory.createLayer(resource);
...

This works and the layer is shown in the map

Later the application tries to create a new layer based on
        a
resource of
this featuretype. It starts with
resource =

        CatalogPlugin.getDefault().getLocalCatalog
().createTemporaryResource
(featureType);

(like above) but I get an exception:

java.lang.RuntimeException
 at




net.refractions.udig.catalog.internal.CatalogImpl.createTemporaryReso
u
rce(CatalogImpl.java:749)

 at ... the row with [resource = CatalogPlugin....] (see
        above)

Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Schema
modification not
 supported
 at
 org.geotools.data.AbstractDataStore.updateSchema
(AbstractDataStore.java:228)

 at




net.refractions.udig.catalog.memory.internal.TemporaryResourceFactory
.
createResource(TemporaryResourceFactory.java:48)

 at




net.refractions.udig.catalog.internal.CatalogImpl.createTemporaryReso
u
rce(CatalogImpl.java:743)

 ... 54 more

What am I doing wrong? I'm not modifyfing the featureType
        any more,
I just
want to create a new (a second) ressource based on the
        featureType.
Isn't
it possible?
In



net.refractions.udig.catalog.memory.internal.TemporaryResourceFactory
.
createResource
 udig wants to update the featureType but it seems to be
        not
        allowed.

thanks for any help,
tony roth

ps At the moment we are using UDIG 1.1 RC8 in our project.

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