So this makes two things to clean up?
- FeatureCollection.iterator() to be deprecated
- FeatureSource.setTransaction( transaction ) to be added

Jody

On 04/06/2010, at 4:21 PM, Andrea Aime wrote:

> Michael Bedward ha scritto:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> For my (occasional) javadoc editing I'm trying to get my head around
>> these two iterator lineages, but not with much success so far.
>> Essentially I don't understand why we have both and there seem to be
>> places in the library where one is disguised as another. Is this a
>> historical thing or do they have distinct purposes that I should
>> understand and document ?
> 
> It is an accident due to some thinking that you can access data
> using an API that does not have resource handling (close()) and
> does not throw exceptions.
> 
> SimpleFeatureIterator is the sane way to access data,
> Iterator<SimpleFeature> is for people actively looking for trouble
> (it's still there just for backwards compatibility, but we should 
> really, really deprecate it).
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 
> 
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