Martin Desruisseaux created SIS-186:
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Summary: Set Shapefile as a subclass of DataStore
Key: SIS-186
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-186
Project: Spatial Information Systems
Issue Type: Sub-task
Components: Shapefile
Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
{{Shapefile}} currently extends {{Object}}. It should extends
{{org.apache.sis.storage.DataStore}}, since the later is targeted as the base
class of all data readers (currently NetCDF and ISO 19139 metadata).
The intend of having a base class for all data readers is to allow applications
to process data without knowledge about whether the data are stored in a
Shapefile or a NetCDF file. The SIS command-line tools is an example of such
application.
In the current state of {{DataStore}} class, the main implication is that
{{Shapefile}} must implement the {{getMetadata()}} and {{close()}} methods. A
proposed implementation is attached to this task. Future {{DataStore}} versions
will require more methods, but their API is not yet designed.
Of course, if the {{DataStore}} API is considered problematic for
{{Shapefile}}, we can revisit it according feedbacks.
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