[Gdal-dev] MEM -- In Memory Raster Datasets

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:57:35 +0100, Reiner Beck <r.beck at m4com.de> wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> playing around with the In Memory Raster datasets I found a few issues:
> 
> - The example in the documentation reads "MEM::DATAPOINTER...", it
> should be "MEM:::DATAPOINTER...". One additional colon.

Reiner, 

Fixed.

> - DATATYPE keyword: The documentation states "Name of the data type, as
> returned by GDALGetDataTypeName() (eg. Byte, Int16)". This does not
> work. In "frmts/mem/memdataset.cpp" the integer value of the enumeration
> "GDALDataType" is used (i.e. "1" for Byte).

I have fixed it so the name *or* the numeric values work. 

> - The constructor "MEMDataset::Open(...)" seems to leak the papszOptions
> as returned by "CSLTokenizeStringComplex()". It is not free'd in case of
> success with "CSLDestroy( papszOptions )".

Fixed. 

I have also written a minimist mem.py test script for the mem driver.

Best regards,
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