Re: [udig-devel] Shapefiles

[Mark Presling]

M.S.Bachler wrote: 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 did some stuff with FeatureType the other day... trying to create a new Feature from scratch. Here is the code I found to create a new FeatureType: AttributeType geomAttr = AttributeTypeFactory.newAttributeType("the_geom", LineString.class); FeatureType ftRoad = FeatureTypeBuilder.newFeatureType(new AttributeType[] {geomAttr}, "road"); // WKTReader wktReader = new WKTReader(); // Point geometry = (Point) wktReader.read("POINT (" + lat + " " + lon + ")"); GeometryFactory geomFactory = new GeometryFactory(); LineString geometry = geomFactory.createLineString(coords); Feature theRoad = ftRoad.create(new Object[] {geometry}, "myRoad"); This example Feature only has one attribute which is the geometry, the_geom. You can create and add other attributes in the AttributType[] and Object[] if needed. These classes are from the org.geotools.feature package. Hopefully you may find this useful. I'm not sure if this is the most up-to-date way of doing it, but it worked for me. Mark -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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