[gdal-dev] Using the OGR library with FileGDB driver

[Even Rouault]

Selon Carl Godkin <cgodkin at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:24 AM, xavier lhomme <lhomme.xavier at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
> > Raster Dataset and Mosaic Dataset are not supported  :
> >  See :
> >
>
http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/devsummit13/papers/devsummit-170.pdf
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for the tip, Xavier.  The .gdb files I've got have more than just
> rasters and mosaics, and the presence of these types doesn't prevent the
> FileGDB driver from working on the rest of the database (fortunately).
>  Also, I have some others that don't have rasters or mosaics and still
> don't load in.  However, at least part of the problem is due to unsupported
> features like you suggest.
>
> In trying to debug this, I remembered to set CPL_DEBUG=ON to watch the
> messages out of ogrinfo and I'm seeing that my various datasets downloaded
> from the web.
>
> I'm seeing two kinds:
>
> 1. "Invalid function arguments"
> FGDB: Error opening \CONUS_public_datasets\CONUS_Public_Metadata. Skipping
> it (Invalid function arguments.)
> FGDB: Error opening \CONUS_public_datasets\CONUS_Public_Historic_Map_Info.
> Skipping it (Invalid function arguments.)
> FGDB: Error opening \CONUS_wetlands\CONUS_wet_poly. Skipping it (Invalid
> function arguments.)

ok, that one is actually known. It is also a defect of the FileGDB SDK. See
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4578 and
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4224


>
> 2. "FileGDB compression is not installed"
> FGDB: Error opening \King_SF1_00006mod. Skipping it (FileGDB compression is
> notinstalled.)
> FGDB: Error opening \King_SF1_00005. Skipping it (FileGDB compression is
> not installed.)
> FGDB: Error opening \King_SF1_00002. Skipping it (FileGDB compression is
> not installed.)
>
>
> I have read somewhere online that compression is not supported by the
> FileGDB_API toolkit so there's apparently nothing more I can do about that.
>
> The other is more puzzling and I have actually just duplicated it problem
> by editing one of the sample programs distributed with the FileGDB_API
> called Querying.  When a .gdb contains "Feature Datasets" containing
> "Feature Classes," they sometimes fail to open with this "Invalid function
> arguments" error, the meaning of which I don't understand.
>
> On the other hand, I have another .gdb with this same layout that works
> fine.  I will post one of the non-working examples as Even suggested.
>
> Again, if anyone has any bright ideas, I'd be very grateful.  Thanks,
>
> carl
>