Introduction of getInfo

This page represents the current plan; for discussion please check the tracker link above.

Description

We need to access a description of what a spatial resources is. The goal is to make this information available to GeoTools developers:

• will give widgets swing pending some more information to display and describe;
• will allow uDig to back port some code. In some cases it will allow uDig to close up some anonymous subclasses: JDBC DataStores often subclassed for connection, WFSDataStore subclassed for capabilities information.

This is NOT catalog

Previous work focused on making the description available for searching, this proposal is about making the description available on the classes directly.

What is the Description

What the description is is well understood; it is: "Dublin Core plus a little bit more" (ie bounds and crs). In GeoTools 2.4.x this ideas is represented as GeoResourceInfo and ServiceInfo.

These info classes will be moved into org.geotools.data as part of the proposal (see This is NOT catalog above).

There have been two suggestions on how to extend this core set:

• add a Map of some kind to the data structure, with static final constants for known keys
• extend the interface specifically

Status

This proposal has been accepted:

• Andrea Aime +1
• Ian Turton +0
• Justin Deoliveira +0
• Jody Garnett +1
• Martin Desruisseaux +1 with comments (see below)
• Simone Giannecchini +0

Community support:

• Gabriel Roldán +1
• Jesse Eichar +1

Tasks

1. Move catalog stuff out of the way to an unsupported/module to prevent confusion
2. Add org.geotools.data.ServiceInfo and org.geotools.data.ResourceInfo (remove a few stray getTile methods)
3. Add getInfo methods to WFSDataStore for gabriel to review
4. Add getInfo methods to ShapefileDataSTore for Jesse to review
5. Add getInfo method to AbstractGridCoverage2DReader
6. Add getInfo method to DataStore and stub at the AbstractDataStore, JDBCDataStore, ContentDataStore, Implement for stand alone implementations like ArcSDE
7.  Take the best of geotools or udig getInfo code as the implementation
8.  Cut over uDig to use this code as the final sanity check
   This was done to communicate WFS GetCapabilities information 
9. Provide an example use in the user guide

API Changes

BEFORE

AFTER

Move ServiceInfo to org.geotools.data.ServiceInfo

Move GeoResourceInfo to org.geotools.data.ResourceInfo:

ServiceInfo can be accessed from DataStore:

ResourceInfo can be accessed from FeatureSource:

ServiceInfo and ResourceInfo can be accessed from AbstractGridCoverageReader2DReader:

ServiceInfo and ResourceInfo can be accessed from WebMapServer:

Documentation Changes

list the pages effected by this proposal

• http://svn.geotools.org/geotools/trunk/gt/demo/example/
• Home