Re: [Geotools-devel] New Shapefile module and shapefile2

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

Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
> Andrea Aime wrote:

...

> Shall I propose the addition of an interface similar to 
> javax.imageio.event.IIOReadWarningListener? It contains only one method: 
> warningOccurred(Reader r, String warning), which is invoked when a 
> warning occurs but doesn't stop the reading. This is up to the user to 
> take whatever action he feels when such warning occurs.

Better not introduce a dependendy on JAI on vector data sources, some
user may want to build a vector only application and a dependency
on a extension that's still in beta is not a good idea IHMO. Or are
there some basic modules of Geotools with a direct dependence on it?

> An other possibility is to use the following interface, which is already 
> defined in Geotools 2:
> 
> org.geotools.util.ProgressListener
> 
> http://modules.geotools.org/resources/apidocs/org/geotools/util/ProgressListener.html 
> 
> 
> It can monitor the loading progress, and has a "warningOccured" method. 
> Differents implementation of ProgressListener are available: 
> ProgressWindow display a progress bar and warnings (if any) in a window. 
> ProgressPrinter print the progress on the standard output stream. 
> ProgressMailer take you informed by email if the process is really long...
> 

Yep, I like it better :-)
Best regards
Andrea Aime