Oracle Spatial testing (was Re: [udig-devel] Re: How to add an Oracle Spatial layer?)

[John Reid]

Thanks Jody.  My immediate need has now passed (visualization of spatial 
query results for an assignment) - and when I get my hands dirty I'd 
rather work on other areas closer to my area of interest.

However I do have access to an Oracle instance, so I'm willing to act as 
a tester for Oracle spatial support after my exams finish in 2 weeks 
time.  Just let me know when and what I should be testing :-)

John

Jody Garnett wrote:
> Jesse Eichar wrote:
>>
>> On 9-May-06, at 8:52 PM, John Reid wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks Jesse for fixing the wizard.  I must have looked while the 
>>> nightly build was still in progress as the most recent build I could 
>>> find was the 3rd May :-(  So I went ahead and after a bit of 
>>> fiddling built it from the subversion repository.
>>>
>>> Anyway, the wizard now works and it looks like I am able to connect 
>>> to the database instance, however now I've found what looks like a 
>>> new problem.
>>>
>>> I am unable to select a schema as the "Schema" combo box is 
>>> unpopulated and manually entering text into it disables the "next" 
>>> button.  Unfortunately I need to be able to add layers from multiple 
>>> schemas :-(
>>>
>>> If I leave the Schema box alone and click on next I end up with an 
>>> empty Resource Selection screen.  How does uDig locate tables with a 
>>> geometry attribute?  Also, what I really need to do at the moment is 
>>> display the results of a select query that returns a geometry 
>>> attribute.  In theory is this currently possible?
>>>
>> The geotools oracle plugin is responsible for determining what table 
>> should be used.  I've seen a bunch of emails on the Geotools users 
>> list and developers lists about it... But I'm afraid I don't 
>> understand many of the issues.
> Marc is the module maintainer,
> uDig makes use of some of the oracle metadata information (and thus 
> expects more from the geotools library then it does right now). For a 
> complete status please review this page and then ask questions:
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Oracle
>
> Jody
>
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