Hi Nishith,

On 03/18/2015 08:27 PM, Nishith Maheshwari wrote:
Hi,
I am a masters student from IIIT Hyderabad and currently in my final
year of study and working in the Lab for Spatial Informatics here.

I was a part of GSOC 2014 and worked on the project *'Schematization
Plugin for QGIS'* last year [1][2].

I am interested in the project *'Integration of cpp GDAL utilities into
GDAL core library'* .

I have already looked at a few codes of gdal utilities available in the
'apps' folder of the sourcecode and had a few queries -

1. From my understanding of the project description, the aim is to
refactor the individual codes of gdal utilities by removing the main()
and making them available in the form of functions. These functions can
then be accessed by another function like GDALRunUtility() which can be
used to call them individually using specific parameters. Please let me
know if I'm thinking in the right direction.

2. If we are implementing individual functions for every utility we
might not require a separate layer of interaction in the form of
GDALRunUtility(). Any thoughts?

yes, the idea was to move the functionality of the gdal utilities to GDAL core in order to have it available directly when using the library and thus to facilitate their usage from "external" programs. The functionality should be usable with the GDALRunUtility() function. This would avoid e.g. a system call to a tool or code duplication which is currently needed in order to create a GDAL vrt for example.

It is not intended to remove the GDAL tools, but they would have to be reworked to just provide the parameter interface and then to call GDALRunUtility() themselves. The idea to have a GDALRunUtility() function is to have a unique entry point and common interface to all tool functionality.

Best regards,
Volker



[1] http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/nishithm
[2] https://github.com/nishithm/schematization

Regards,
Nishith Maheshwari
Lab for Spatial Informatics
IIIT Hyderabad, India


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