I looked at the tutorial.  What I noticed is that changing the attributes is
done by first choose Edit Geometry, than choose Edit and the Default Feature
Editor is shown. Changing the attribute this way is working correctly
because my own FeatureWriter (but I think also FeatureWriters of other
datastores) noticed that the Geometry is changed. This way also the
different between the attributes can be written back to, in my case the
database.

But I wanted to be sure if I see things the right way. If I do not use Edit
Geometry, but select the Info icon on the toolbar. Click on a geometry to
make the Default Feature Editor visible (or active). Changing attributes
that way and next commit them to write them back to the datastore will not
trigger the FeatureWriter that a Feature is changed. The geometry is not
marked as being changed (like Edit Geometry does). 

Is this true or not?

Best regards,

Johan de Koning

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Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Attribute editing

Johan C. de Koning wrote:
>
> Vitali,
>
>  
>
> To make it clear. The problem is not the editing of the Features 
> geometry, it is about changing the other attributes (textual or 
> numerical). My question is, if this should work within uDig? When I 
> only change these attributes (the geometry is not changed) the 
> FeatureWriter method write is not triggered. But maybe it is not 
> possible yet in uDig to change the other attributes of a feature. I 
> hope somebody can give me an answer on that question.
>
>  
>
We do it with GeoServer 1.3 in the walkthrough 2. Yes uDig supports 
attribute editing.

Now what it does not do well in that demo is notice when the WFS changes 
(the tutorial asks you to hit refresh). Notifications are not part of 
the WFS specification.

Jody

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