Paul Austin wrote:
Hi Jordy,
I'm looking at several formats including GPX (GPS Exchange), SAIF and
any others I find useful, once I have them up and running I will look
at making them available to the wider community. Not sure when that
we'll be however.
No worries, and if you want svn access to host the work in progress that
is cool too.
Jody
Cheers,
Paul
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 13:54 -0700, Jody Garnett wrote:
Hi Paul that is todays topic in the training course I am doing, so yes
there is documentation but it is part of our training course.
> Is there any documentation or worked examples on how to create a new
> reader/writer for file formats not supported by uDig.
In the programmers guide you will find a discussion of IService and
IGeoResource (the two interfaces you will need to implement to represent
your file format) ... From there you will need to use that eclipse
house rule "monkey see monkey do" and copy one of the import wizards (I
think there may be a special extention point just to describe file
formats with their filename extensions).
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http://udig.refractions.net/help/topic/net.refractions.udig.doc/html/2%20Catalog.html
You can look in the svn repository for the sample code use in the
training course, it does include an example of doing this for a quick
text based file.
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http://svn.geotools.org/udig/trunk/tutorials/net.refractions.udig.tutorials.catalog.property/
From there you need to define what you want to do? If you just want
access to your file you can make a quick ResolveAdapater that will open
up the file from the URI and connection parameters.
If you want to see your file on screen you can define your own renderer.
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http://udig.refractions.net/help/topic/net.refractions.udig.doc/html/7%20Renderers.html
Once again there is an example of doing this for the property file
format mentioned above:
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http://svn.geotools.org/udig/trunk/tutorials/net.refractions.udig.tutorials.render.property/
If you want to turn your own file format into Features (and make use of
all the visualization and editing goodness in uDig) you will need to
look into how to make a geotools datastore, there is a tutorial on this
here (but it is a little out of date):
- http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/DataStore+Walkthrough
Note you can use this to quickly create a "readonly" data source, or
invest more time and do read/write.
> I have the actual reader/writer that can read the file format I just
> need to be able to integrate it into the uDig app.
See above, you can do a minimal bit of work to get something into the
catalog and then on screen, or you can create a datastore.
If your file format is interesting to more people then just you let me
know and we can set you up with uDig svn community folder so you can
share your work.
Jody
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