Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Width of Metadata in Shapefile

[Schuster S. <ste...@ge...>]

Hi,

thanks again to everybody who helped me.

I solved the problem by splitting my long string over several columns - it
works fine :-)

Stefan

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Von: Andrea Aime [mailto:aa...@op...] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Februar 2010 13:18
An: Schuster Stefan
Cc: geo...@li...
Betreff: Re: AW: [Geotools-gt2-users] Width of Metadata in Shapefile

Schuster Stefan ha scritto:
> Hello Andrea,
> 
> thanks a lot for your fast answer, but I still have a problem
> 
> As you suggested I switched to SimpleFeatureTypeBuilder, therefor I
replaced
> the code for creating the FeatureType as follows:
> 
> 
> SimpleFeatureTypeBuilder builder = new SimpleFeatureTypeBuilder();
> builder.setName("Ereignisse");
> builder.setCRS(CRS.decode("EPSG:32632"));
> builder.add("Location", MultiLineString.class);
> for (String fieldName : fieldNames) {
> 	builder.length(3500).add(fieldName, String.class);
> }
> TYPE = builder.buildFeatureType();
> 
> 
> I can now set a restriction for Strings to be _shorter_ than 255 chars,
but
> not to be _longer_.
> I'd need a possible maximum of 3500 chars in Field

That would not be a DBF file anymore, the length of a field can
be specified using a byte, so it can be 255 at most:
http://www.dbase.com/knowledgebase/int/db7_file_fmt.htm

Cheers
Andrea

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