Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Problem of reading shapefile

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

No worries; 2.3.3 should be fine; now about that stack trace?
Jody
#LIU DONGQUAN# wrote:
> Dear Jody:
> Thank you for your reply. I am using gt2-2.3.3.a. should I try other version?
>
> Regards
> liudq
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jga...@re...] 
> Sent: 2007年10月25日 5:52
> To: #LIU DONGQUAN#
> Cc: geo...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Problem of reading shapefile
>
> mayol wrote:
>   
>> hi, all
>> i am new to geotools. i am trying the shapefile reading programe on the
>> website. but it got problem when running it.
>> problem is: java.lang.NullPointerException!!!
>>   
>>     
> Can you give me the stack trace?
>
>   
>> the code is shown below. i think problem is in this line: "DataStore
>> dataStore = DataStoreFinder.getDataStore( connect );". please help me about
>> it. thanks a lot~~~~
>>   
>>     
>
>   
>>             File file = new File( "bc_hospitals.shp" );
>>             if( !file.exists() ) System.exit(1);
>>
>>             Map connect = new HashMap();
>>             connect.put( "url", file.toURL() );
>>             System.out.println(file.toURL().toString());
>>
>>             DataStore dataStore = DataStoreFinder.getDataStore( connect );
>>   
>>     
> That looks okay; and I see you checked to make sure the file exists 
> already. What version of GeoTools are you running with?
> Jody
>