[udig-devel] File format names for unbuntu 10.4 LTS FileDialog

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay Andrea:

Internal to catalog.ui plugin FileConnectionFactory class I am adding a List<FileType> getTypeList( includeAll ) method to FileConnectionFactory, where FileType is:

public static class FileType implements Comparable<FileType> {

        public final String name;

        public final List<String> extensions;

}     

In order to generate this information I am doing two things:

a) Making use of our fileFormat extension point - example:

   <extension

         id="net.refractions.udig.catalog.geotiff.fileFormats"

         name="GeoTiff File Formats"

         point="net.refractions.udig.catalog.ui.fileFormat">

      <fileService

            fileExtension="*.tif"

            name="Tif"/>

      <fileService

            fileExtension="*.tiff"

            name="Tiff"/>

   </extension>

I will combine this into a single entry as follows:

   <extension

         id="net.refractions.udig.catalog.geotiff.fileFormats"

         name="GeoTiff File Formats"

         point="net.refractions.udig.catalog.ui.fileFormat">

      <fileService

            fileExtension="*.tif;*.tiff"

            name="GeoTIFF"/>

   </extension>

That also won't break backwards compatibility :-)

b) We also added a dynamic class for things like GDAL and JGrass to insert formats that they determine at runtime:

public interface FormatProvider {

    /**

     * Generated supported format extensions.

     * <p>

     * Extensions used directly and should be provided in the format "*.xxx".

     * 

     * @return Set of format extensions

     */

    Set<String> getExtensions();

}

- Short term; I am taking the Classname as the description to show the the user (perhaps knocking off the trailing word "provider"). So "GDALFormatProvider" is shown as "GDAL".

- Long term we need an API change, and you have at least one implementation right? 

public interface FormatProvider {

    List<String> getNames();       // example: "GeoTiff"

    List<String> getExtensions(); // example: "*.tif;*.tiff"

}

-- 

Jody Garnett

On Wednesday, 22 August 2012 at 5:53 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

The unbuntu 12.04 LTS experience way different; in particular the file dialog is poor.

Got this one on the run .. apparently dialog.setFilterNames( … ) will fix it for us; and that is so obvious nobody else on the internet made the same mistake.

Jody