[geos-devel] Geometry.isRectangle access difference with JTS

[Mateusz Loskot]

Ben Jubb wrote:
> Fellow GEOSites:
> In my pursuit of porting the lastest and greatest changes from JTS 1.9,
> I've run into a minor issue that I'd like to get some opinions on from
> the earlier porters.
> 
> In geom::Geometry, isRectangle() is protected. In JTS (at least for the
> past few versions) this function is public.
> Is there any special reason why the GEOS version is protected?

Ben,

I don't know exact rationale but my understanding is that
isRectangle *was* specific to interface of Polygon class only.
However, existence of default implementation (return false) suggests
that the function is supposed to be available for all geometry types.
>From this point, Geometry::isRectangle as protected is just a design bug.

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net