[fdo-dev] GetProviderDatastoreType()

[Jason Birch]

Managed data stores are annoying anyway :)
 
I dislike that the default setup means that I have to upload all of my files (which are available via UNC anyway) instead of just pointing to them.  It goes agains all off my anti-duplication training.  And yes, I've read the whitepaper (and earlier explanations on the MG users list) that tell me how to deal with this manually.
 
Hmm. Re-reading your comment Traian.  Does this mean that I can't move the virtual location (folder structure) of the feature source in the repository, or just that I can't move the feature source between servers, or into a package, or?
 
Jason

 
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From: Traian Stanev [mailto:traian.stanev at autodesk.com]
Sent: Thu 2006-10-26 7:03 PM
To: dev at fdo.osgeo.org; FDO Developers
Subject: RE: [fdo-dev] GetProviderDatastoreType()


Same question applies to the OGR provider.
In theory one could wait until the connection is open and figure out what the underlying data source is, but I didn't do that (so far). I just made it return Unknown.
The downside (and I'm relating something that was explained to me when I asked the same question) is that a MapGuide feature source is not portable when you return Unknown -- meaning that if the connection is to a file, the client logic would know to copy the file also when moving a feature source around. With Unknown, it can't know that so copying a feature source would require manual work by the user. 
 
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