Re: [Geoserver-devel] CSV data store as a stand alone module

[Torben B. <tba...@bo...>]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Andrea Aime <and...@ge...>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Torben Barsballe <
> tba...@bo...> wrote:
>
>>
>> One warning - Last time I interacted with the CSV datastore (in March)
>> and GeoServer importer, it looked like it was still missing a few things.
>> It seems the CSV datastore does not handle geometry columns especially
>> well. CSV Import via the GeoServer importer UI only supports CSVs as lists
>> of attributes (no geometry).
>>
>
> This is because the code makes no attempt to figure out which strategy to
> use, it could just parse the file once to figure out the best strategy, and
> then again to actually
> import it. That's what I did for the GML reader, where there is no good
> way to just read the headers and guess the GML version, sometimes the
> geometry type, and its CRS (under the common case that the schema is
> nowhere to be found)
>
>
I have done a bit of work trying to get this working for CSV stores in the
GeoServer importer, although I haven't got anything final yet. I may get
this working sometime in the future.

Torben