Re: [Geotools-devel] Complex features without application schemas: would it work?

[Justin D. <jde...@op...>]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Andrea Aime
<and...@ge...>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Justin Deoliveira <jde...@op...>
> wrote:
> > While I very much appreciate the work the appschema folks have been doing
> I
> > do agree that there is room for a solution that does not involve xml
> schema
> > mapping, as your use case and past experiences clearly indicates.
> > As for going from featureType to xml schema without a predefined schema
> (for
> > complex features) I don't know if there is any code that will do this
> > precisely. But there are bits of code lying around that could be used..
> The
> > code we use for simple features (that currently lives in geoserver) could
> be
> > adapted to support the complex feature case. Although I imagine it would
> > rely on conventions in how the complex feature type structure is built
> when
> > determining how to map that to an xml schema.
> > Doable imo though.
>
> Sounds good. What about the GML encoding of features? Does it require
> an external schema or can it work off the FeatureType definition?
>

Nope, basically what will happen is the encoder will hit a feature and look
up its type in the cache. When it does not find it it will simply reverse
engineer it from the feature type itself, place it in the cache and continue
on.

>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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