[Geotools-devel] DataStore.close() quick proposal

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

Hi,
after a bit of discussion on the GeoTools mailing list and
IRC (
I've put togheter a change proposal to add a DataStore.close()
method to the DataStore API:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Add+a+close+method+to+DataStore+API

Some notes on the proposal:
* I took the liberty of assigning documentation tasks to Jody
   and ArcSDE tasks to Saul Farber. Change that at will, I just
   filled in the "obvious" choices to speed up the proposal (and
   if you think you can do any of those tasks in place of the
   proposed person please step up).
* I was undecided on whether the close method should throw an
   IOException or not. IOStreams and sql objects do throw an
   exception on close, yet I always found myself just cacthing
   and logging it. So, what do people think, shall we throw an
   exception there or not?

I already added my +1 (which won't change independent on how
the exception throwing is going to be handled).

Cheers
Andrea