[Gdal-dev] Changes to and upgrade of the Perl bindings

[Ari Jolma]

Mark Overmeer kirjoitti:
>   print scalar(GDAL->drivers), " drivers defined\n";
>   

Suppose I have Geo::GDAL::Layer::features. There may be millions of 
features in one layer. If this method really returns all of them in a 
list, it may take a while. Would scalar (Geo::GDAL::Layer::features) 
then also take a while, or can I somehow detect that inside the method 
(with wantarray) and call featureCount and return what it returns.. hmm, 
maybe I can. And what if the user calls it like this: 
Geo::GDAL::Layer::features->[34] to get just one feature?

I'm just trying to figure out what methods are needed:

feature
features
addFeature
featureCount
etc..

I've updated http://map.hut.fi/gdal-perl/Geo-GDAL.html but it's not 
finished since it will contain _all_ classes and their methods.

Ari

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Prof. Ari Jolma
Kartografia ja Geoinformatiikka / Cartography and Geoinformatics
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology
POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland
Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma