On 10-05-28 10:25 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > Andrea Aime ha scritto: >> The idea of grafting a jdbc specific bit in the FeatureTypeInfo >> interface does not really make me jump of joy. Alternatives? >> Extending the brief map converter to support complex objects as >> values I guess, which kind of seems to invalidating the reason >> to have a brief converter in the first place, isn't it? > > Ah, I see now that MetadataMap has a get(key, Class target) > method using converters. So having a converter between String and > VirtualTable would work. > However it would be nice if the persister went also the other > way, and used converters instead of toString()... or used > MetadataMap.get(key, String.class) which might have a special > handling of the string case (toString() if the converters > don't return anything else) > > Sounds better?
Yeah. We could also try to make the MetadataMap smarter and instead of just blindly trying to convert to a string for every object only convert for "primitives". But if you want to go the converter route that sounds good too. > > Cheers > Andrea > -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
