[postgis-users] RC6 + ArcObjects

Bart van den Eijnden bartvde at xs4all.nl
Tue Apr 12 12:43:38 PDT 2005


WKB spec can be found in here:

http://www.opengeospatial.org/docs/99-049.pdf

Best regards,
Bart

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:43:20 -0400, Abe Gillespie  
<abe.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I did do a few small by-hand tests going from WKB to ArcObjects
> and vice versa (in fact, some where examples from MySQL ... heh).
> Those all worked ok.  Maybe I just havn't come up with the right
> example yet.  The weird thing though, is a given record will work
> sometimes but other times not.  That's where I'm confused.
>
> Anyone know where I can get my hands on the WKB spec?
>
> Thanks for the help.
> -Abe
>
> On Apr 12, 2005 3:26 PM, Darren Houston <dhouston at beyondcompliance.ca>  
> wrote:
>> Hello Abe,
>>
>> I didn't spend much time on the following situation so I don't know how
>> correct this statement is.
>>
>> I have a friend who is playing around with MySQL WKB and ArcObjects. He  
>> is
>> having similar problems as you. Looking deeper, he found that the WKB
>> ArcObjects produced is not the same as WKB from MySQL and therefore  
>> probably
>> PostGIS. I looked at the WKB that he sent me for the same point from
>> ArcObjects and MySQL - MySQL looked correct but ArcObjects WKB looked  
>> wrong
>> (it started off with what looked like default bits for padding or  
>> something
>> else specific to ArcObjects). I would honestly look at the WKB objects  
>> from
>> ArcObjects as the problem, comparing input and output. Like I said, I  
>> looked
>> at both WKB outputs and told my friend "MySQL is right, ArcObjects is  
>> wrong".
>> That is as far as I took it. But nonetheless, I hope this helps you  
>> some.
>>
>> Darren H.
>>
>> On April 12, 2005 11:51 am, Abe Gillespie wrote:
>> > The SQL query always succeeds.  It's when the WKB data is converted to
>> > an ArcObject via geoEnv.CreateGeometryFromWkbVariant(bin, out geo, out
>> > byteCnt) do I encounter intermittent problems.  I realize this could
>> > be a problem with the CreateGeometryFromWkbVariant call, but could it
>> > be data from PostGIS causing the problem?  I'm not sure how to verify
>> > this.
>> >
>> > -Abe
>> >
>> > On Apr 12, 2005 1:43 PM, strk at refractions.net <strk at refractions.net>  
>> wrote:
>> > > Abe, if you want to find out you should try to provide
>> > > a simple SQL-only script showing the problem.
>> > > --strk;
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:06:05PM -0400, Abe Gillespie wrote:
>> > > > I'm dabbling in connecting / using PostGIS in ESRI ArcObjects.   
>> I'm
>> > > > experiencing intermittent problems though.  I've included the  
>> code I'm
>> > > > using below.  I realize there are three different technologies
>> > > > entering the mix here: Npgsql, PostGIS, and ArcObjects.  However,  
>> I'm
>> > > > led to believe the problem is with PostGIS and not the others;  
>> this
>> > > > use to fail *every* time in earlier PostGIS releases.
>> > > >
>> > > > The thing to notice is different runs produce different outputs.   
>> The
>> > > > output being the IDs of the records throwing exceptions.
>> > > >
>> > > > I've attached the sql script of the problematic data.  I'd  
>> appreciate
>> > > > it if anyone could look into this but also realize this problems  
>> spans
>> > > > multiple areas of expertise.
>> > > >
>> > > > Thansk.
>> > > > -Abe
>> > > >
>> > > > // begin code -->
>> > > > using System;
>> > > > using ESRI.ArcObjects.Core;
>> > > > using Npgsql;
>> > > >
>> > > > namespace WKB
>> > > > {
>> > > >     class Program
>> > > >     {
>> > > >         static void Main(string[] args)
>> > > >         {
>> > > >             // Connect to PostGIS and query.
>> > > >             NpgsqlConnection con = new
>> > > > NpgsqlConnection(connectionString); con.Open();
>> > > >             NpgsqlCommand cmd = con.CreateCommand();
>> > > >             cmd.CommandText = "select asbinary(the_geom) as  
>> shape,gid
>> > > > from roads;";
>> > > >             NpgsqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
>> > > >
>> > > >             // Setup objects and ArcObjects.
>> > > >             object bin;
>> > > >             IGeometry geo;
>> > > >             int byteCnt;
>> > > >             GeometryEnvironmentClass geoEnv = new
>> > > > GeometryEnvironmentClass();
>> > > >
>> > > >             while (dr.Read())
>> > > >             {
>> > > >                 bin = null;
>> > > >                 geo = null;
>> > > >                 byteCnt = 0;
>> > > >
>> > > >                 bin = dr["shape"];
>> > > >                 try
>> > > >                 {
>> > > >                     // Try to convert raw data into an ArcObject.
>> > > >                     geoEnv.CreateGeometryFromWkbVariant(bin, out  
>> geo,
>> > > > out byteCnt);
>> > > >                 }
>> > > >                 catch
>> > > >                 {
>> > > >                     // There was a failure.
>> > > >                     // The exception always has a generic  
>> description.
>> > > >                     Console.WriteLine(dr["gid"].ToString());
>> > > >                     continue;
>> > > >                 }
>> > > >             }
>> > > >         }
>> > > >
>> > > >         static private string connectionString { get { return
>> > > > "your_con_str_here"; } }
>> > > >     }
>> > > > }
>> > > > // <-- end code.
>> > > >
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