Make vector grid construction a streaming process
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                 Key: GEOT-3132
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-3132
             Project: GeoTools
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: new modules
            Reporter: Michael Bedward
            Assignee: Michael Bedward
             Fix For: 2.7-M1


The grid module presently constructs grids in memory, with the whole grid being 
built at one time  and stored in a ListFeatureCollection. The next step is to 
make grid element creation a streaming process as suggested by Andrea on IRC:

- Grid creation methods will return a FeatureSource which only contains the 
definition of the grid, not the grid itself.

- When the feature source gets a query (and optionally rendering hints to 
decide how densely polygon vertices should be created) a FeatureCollection is 
generated; this collection also only contains the grid definition, not its 
contents.

- A custom FeatureIterator is used to get grid elements. Each time next() is 
called the element is constructed on the fly.

- When working with a user provided feature type and GridFeatureBuilder these 
are passed to the custom iterator.

The result should be a fully streaming solution with close to zero memory 
footprint.


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