[OpenLayers-Dev] reading WKT Format and GEOMETRYCOLLECTIONS

[Tobias Sauerwein]

Hi Mark!

The patch for ticket 2240 also implements read, but is not backward
compatible. See:

It was suggested on IRC (pgiraud and crschmidt) that an additional optional
> arg could be added to .read, or a method on the WKT class itself (I'd prefer
> the latter).
>
http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2707

Tobias


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Marc Jansen <jansen at terrestris.de> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> Correction: the other write()-ticket is
> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2240
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
>
> On 29.07.2010 08:58, Marc Jansen wrote:
> > 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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