Just to chime in I agree totally. I don't think GeoTools is the place to
start to develop "bindings" for other languages. Maybe bindings is a bad
term. I think geotools needs to remain plain old java and any scripting
capabilities get build into projects on top of it like geoscript.
2c.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Eric Sword via SF
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I had never heard of the GeoScript project, so I will check it out.
> Thanks
> > for the tip. I completely understand about not wanting to cause
> confusion
> > with too many languages. The one argument I would put forward for Groovy
> > over the others that you mentioned is that there is very little
> "syntactic
> > impedance" between it and Java compared to Java and other languages like
> > Python and Scala. You can be reading a unit test and not even realize it
> is
> > not Java until you see something like this:
> >
> > void testParseComplexFilter() {
> > List srsNames = ["EPSG:4326", "EPSG:4325", "EPSG:99999"]
> > srsNames.each { srcName ->
> > def xml = """
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > SHAPE
> >
> > -85.693359375 -41.585665809419
> > 90.087890625 44.203116178454
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > """
> >
> > def results = FilterEncoder.parse(xml)
> > assertTrue(results instanceof Filter)
> > ...
> > }
> > }
> >
> > which shows simple List creation, an iterator closure, and formatted
> > multi-line strings with template replacement. You have to admit, it
> looks a
> > lot nicer than a lot of String escaping, concatenating and such. But
> > that's just my little plug. I'll be quiet now.
>
> That's an extremely slippery slope, saying no to any language other than
> java
> is the only way. Otherwise we'll be trapped in discussing the benefit of
> xml
> literals in various scripting languages, the advances in the Scala actor
> model
> for concurrent programming and who knows what else.
>
> If I had to state a preference I'd go Scala, it's efficient,
> statically typed, and powerful.
> But I'm being realistic, Scala, or Groovy, or Jython, they can only be
> used in a brand
> new project where the team is all set going that way, the team is small and
> not
> likely to have much turn over. That's not GeoTools, nor GeoServer.
> The day I'll decide it's time to drop these projects and move on I'll
> certainly have a
> look at alternative languages, today... too much to do to inflict myself
> and the
> other members of the community a language war.
>
> My 2 cents ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
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