[OpenLayers-Dev] reading WKT Format and GEOMETRYCOLLECTIONS

[Marc Jansen]

Hi Eric,

thanks for the response. The only ticket I found would be 
http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2707, which does not include a patch. 
There are other tickets (http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2707 and 
http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2706) which address the 
write()-method, but AFAICT ignore the read()-method.

If there is consensus about the suggestion in #2707 (add the 
possibillity to control the return type for GCs), I'd give it a shot.

Regards,
Marc



On 29.07.2010 08:28, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> On Monday, July 26, 2010, Marc Jansen<jansen at terrestris.de>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi List,
>>
>> When using the WKT Format and feeding it -- via read() -- a
>> GEOMETRYCOLLECTION we return an array of single features having
>> geometries that represent the parts of the GEOMETRYCOLLECTION . It is
>> AFAIK not possible to return one feature with a geometry of type
>> OpenLayers.Geometry.Collection.
>>
>> Shouldn't we make it configurable how to handle GEOMETRYCOLLECTIONs?
>>      
> Hi Marc. I think there's an ticket with a patch for that issue. To
> help move forward with this issue you could possibly test the patch
> and report back in the ticket. Thanks,
>
>    
>> And BTW, shouldn't read and write be APIMethods (at least for Format.WKT
>> they aren't)
>>      
> Yes they should. I'll go ahead and change that.
>
>    


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