RE: [udig-devel] Shapefiles

[M.S.Bachler]

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Hi! Silly question. Earlier you helpfully gave me a code snippet to create a new shapefile. IndexedShapefileDatastoreFactory fac=new IndexedShapefileDataStoreFactory(); ShapefileDataStore ds=fac.createDatastore(url); // I assume this is the URL of the new shapefile I want it to create? GeometryFactory gf = new GeometryFactory(); ds.createSchema( featureType ); // Here I got lost. Started to investigate FeatureType and felt like I was walking through tar. I eventually found IndexedShapefileDatastoreFactory etc in the GeoTools api. Do I actually have to download this and import it into Eclipse, or is it already available to me somehow, as the compiler keeps telling me it can't find IndexedShapefileDatastoreFactory even though I have put the import statement for it in the class? Michelle -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesse Eichar Sent: 24 February 2006 17:54 To: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Shapefiles That is a geotools issue.  To create a new shapefile do something like: IndexedShapefileDatastoreFactory fac=new IndexedShapefileDataStoreFactory(); ShapefileDataStore ds=fac.createDatastore( url ); ds.createSchema( featureType ); List<IService> service = CatalogPlugin.getDefault().getServiceFactory().acquire(url); Now you have a service with which you can get the resource and create a layer from the resource. Jesse M.S.Bachler wrote: Hi! This is probably a daft question, but I have had a hunt around the API and can't figure it out. If I want to create new layers programmatically on the drop of my icons and I want that data to be stored in a shapefile, Are there classes/methods in uDig to create a new shapefile for a new layer, or do I have to create the shapefile myself somehow? Michelle _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel

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