[gdal-dev] image-io extension

[Viji V Nair]

Hi

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Simone Giannecchini
<simone.giannecchini at geo-solutions.it> wrote:
> Ciao Even,
> I have asked daniele to make those changes (which have not been reviewed yet)
> in order to move away from the explicit usage of Vector and HashTable in method
> signatures in favour of using the respective interfaces (List and Map).
> Daniele can add more as needed...
>
> As you mentioned this change can break old code, but it should
> make the java bindings more ... javaish :).
>
> We have other changes in the queue which we might submit to your review
> early next year, but this is another topic...
>
>
> Viji , I don't think you need to use the patch you are referring to since
> that is needed for imageio-ext 1.1 which has not been released yet.
> The latest (and greatest) is 1.0.8 which uses an older gdal version.

We are trying to package the SVN version of imageio 1.1 (r1236) with
GDAL 1.7.3. I haven't tried the GDAL 1.7.3 with imageio 1.0.8 yet.

Thanks
Viji

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> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Even Rouault
> <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
>> Hi Viji,
>>
>> I maintain the GDAL Java bindings, but the image-io GDAL plugin is another
>> project whose maintener is Daniele I think. He'll correct me if I'm wrong, but
>> I saw his name on http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/ImageIO-EXT+GDAL
>> ;-) . I've CC'ed him so he has a chance to comment and explain the rational of
>> the patch.
>>
>> I wasn't aware of this patch. I've skimmed through it quickly, and it seems
>> that it only replaces old-fashionned data structures like Vector to use more
>> trendish ArrayList + Java 1.5 generics. Well, this is certainly not a bad idea
>> (something to consider for GDAL 2.0 ?), but I fail to see why it was
>> *necessary* . I'm not particularly keen on applying this patch in GDAL
>> mainline as it changes the API of the Java bindings, thus breaking working
>> code of other users. I fail to see why ImageIO-EXT cannot use the existing
>> API, even if it is perhaps not as convenient as it could be if it was using
>> more modern Java API.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Even
>>
>> Le jeudi 09 décembre 2010 14:18:18, Viji V Nair a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am one of the GDAL co-maintainer for Fedora, I would like to have
>>> the image-io extension support, currently it been supported through
>>> the following patch from image-io. But I dont think this is a good
>>> idea as the modifications are bit heavy.
>>>
>>> https://imageio-ext.dev.java.net/svn/imageio-ext/trunk/patches/gdal1.7.2.pa
>>> tch (Username : guest, Password: guest)
>>>
>>> Is there any work going on related to this? Please share the ideas
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Viji
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