Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] beginner question on shapefile reading

[Andrea A. <aa...@op...>]

Wouter Heijke ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> Let me clarify a bit.
> The shapefile contains basically 2 feature types, POI's and Entry points.
> I need to combine the POI's with the Entry point(s).
> A dbf file contains the relations.
> 
> I wonder if this dbf file is being read by the Datastore since it has a
> different name and there is a dbf file for the POI's.
> 
> Hope this clarifies a bit..

Ah, that is external data linking. Sorry, we don't support that at all
right now (not in the stable series anyways).
So I guess you'll be stuck reading the separate DBF on your own using
some lower level access (like the classes the Shapefile datastore use
to read DBF files) and perform the join in memory

Cheers
Andrea

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