[Gdal-dev] RFC 12: Improved File Management

[Ari Jolma]

Daniel Morissette kirjoitti:
> Ari Jolma wrote:
>> Daniel Morissette kirjoitti:
>>>
>>> I didn't think OGR already had a similar GetFileList() and family of 
>>> methods. Did I miss that addition?
>>
>> No it doesn't have. I was thinking more what the fast format 
>> identification functionality (RFC 11) offers.
>>
>
> I didn't think OGR had an equivalent of RFC-11 either? I'm not trying 
> to be picky, just trying to find out whether OGR already has some of 
> those features that I was not aware of.

Datasource has GetLayerCount and GetLayerByIndex methods. With these it 
is easy to develop dialog boxes which show only the available layers to 
the user. GDAL does not have such functionality, I'm hoping the RFC-11 
will give it that.

Cheers,

Ari

>
> Daniel