Hello all
Before to make proposal for the Shapefile reader, I would like to make
some for the DefaultFeature class [1]. This class will be central to
many future SIS developments. I would like to make it closer to ISO
19109, GML 3.2 and GeoAPI interfaces (while we will not implement GeoAPI
right now).
A Feature is basically a map of (key, value) pairs where the key are
names and values can be any object. Compared to the current
DefaultFeature interface, I propose the following changes:
* Replace the getRecord() and setRecord() methods by:
* getAttributeValue(String) : Object
* setAttributeValue(String, Object)
* Remove the getGeom() and setGeom() methods, which would be an
attribute like any other.
The reason for the later is that some kind of features may have no
geometry, or more than one geometry with different name.
The reason for the former is that the map type may not be Map<String,
String>. It may be something like Map<Name, Value> or
Collection<Property>, to be determined in a future version. But no
matter the approach selected later, it would probably be possible the
get/setAttributeValue(String, ...) methods as convenient methods.
What do peoples thinks?
Martin
[1]
https://builds.apache.org/job/sis-jdk7/site/apidocs/org/apache/sis/feature/DefaultFeature.html
