Re: [Geotools-devel] Re: VPF DataStore Feedback and QA {Suspected Spam}

[John M. <joh...@so...>]

> Oh yeah, one more, I changed the datastore factory to use a url instead
> of a file.  I couldn't get it right on geoserver with the file, and
> indeed we do some tricky stuff with urls for relative locations. 
> Shapefile is a url, and I think gml may be too, so I think it just
> makes things more in line.  With approval I'll put that in as well.  I
> think it allows a bit more flexibility.

This may cause some problems since it has to actually be a file.  If
you've got some robust error checking and URL -> File code then I don't
have a problem with switching it over.


>>I tried to use GML but couldn't get it to work.  One problem was
>>http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-471.  But even with that fixed
>>locally I couldn't get any downloaded files to actually work.  My
>>guess
>>was that it was looking for GML tags at the root level and all the
>>files
>>I found had GML tags embedded down in subelements.
> 
> Cool, I was going to spend a bit of time seeing if I could get it
> working.  I would actually guess another problem might be if you don't
> have your schemaLocations all set exactly right, as it processes those.

I didn't do anything with schemaLocations.  I just tried loading up some
random GML files that I found online.  Since no one was breathing down
my neck about GML support (they were about VPF) I didn't put any real
effort into debugging it.