On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jan De Moerloose < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > while upgrading to geotools 2.7-RC2 i am getting the following error on > 2.6 code: > > Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: > > org.geotools.data.DataStore.getFeatureSource(Ljava/lang/String;)Lorg/geotools/data/FeatureSource; > at > > org.geomajas.layer.shapeinmem.FeatureSourceRetriever.getFeatureSource(FeatureSourceRetriever.java:81) > ~[classes/:na] > at > > org.geomajas.layer.shapeinmem.ShapeInMemLayer.initFeatures(ShapeInMemLayer.java:221) > ~[classes/:na] > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > ~[na:1.6.0_18] > > Apparently the return type of getFeatureSource() has changed to a > subtype of FeatureSource called SimpleFeatureSource. > I suppose the signature change is intentionally, but it causes a big > problem for us as we try to adhere to a strict api contract for our > Geomajas project (no recompilation of old code for upgrades). > > I would like to know if there is a fix possible that does not require > recompiling the 2.6 code (i doubt it from a java view point) ? > If not, should we expect similar issues with upcoming minor version > upgrades or is this an exceptional case ? > > I guess it's a different interpretation of minor version. In GeoTools when we change from x.y.z to x.y.z+1 the api is not going to break. When we change from x.y to x.y+1 the api is often going to change, like it happened this time, but the overall structure of the project can be maintained. The day we decide to go from x to x+1... you'll probably have so many api changes in your hand that it will feel like starting over your application. Just look for GeoTools 1.x series and compare with 2.x, the 2.x was basically rewritten from scratch with no backwards compatibility whatsoever. Now, I don't envision such a harsh change if/when we go 3.0, but it is likely that api break will pop up like popcorn (that is, we'll probably decide to call it GeoTools 3 the day that the changes are really fundamental). Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf -------------------------------------------------------
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