[Geotools-devel] Caching shapefile datastores

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

Hi all (hey Jesse),
the current shapefile datastore factory has this nasty habit of
caching the returned datastores so that the hitting it twice
with the same parameters will return the same datastore.

This seems downright wrong, it's not depanded by the datastore
SPI and breaks disposing shapefiles.

So I was wondering, before I go and wipe out the caching, was
there any good reason to have it in the first place?
Imho it's the job of the application using the stores to
cache them if there is a need to (GS does for performance,
but then again, properly manage their lifecycles as well).

Cheers
Andrea

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