[udig-devel] new not existing shapefile opened for reading

[andrea antonello]

I think I'm gone mad, since I am no more able to write a shapefile...
Following Jody's/Jesse's tutorials about writing shapefiles from
featurecollections properly, things that used to work in the past do
not work for me any longer.
The problem seems to be that it always tries to open the file as a
reading channel, supposing that it exists already.

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/moovida/TMP/brenta_net.shp
	at org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore.getReadChannel(ShapefileDataStore.java:293)
	at org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore.openShapeReader(ShapefileDataStore.java:448)
	at org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore.readAttributes(ShapefileDataStore.java:659)
	at org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore.getSchema(ShapefileDataStore.java:615)
	at org.geotools.data.AbstractFileDataStore.getFeatureSource(AbstractFileDataStore.java:70)

Am I missing some change in the api?

Shouldn't it be something like:

            // Create the DataStoreFactory
            ShapefileDataStoreFactory factory = new ShapefileDataStoreFactory();

            // Create the file you want to write to
            File file = null;
            if (shapeFilePath.toLowerCase().endsWith(".shp")) {
                file = new File(shapeFilePath);
            } else {
                file = new File(shapeFilePath + ".shp");
            }
            // Create a Map object used by our DataStore Factory
            // NOTE: file.toURI().toURL() is used because file.toURL()
is deprecated
            Map<String, URL> map = Collections.singletonMap("url",
file.toURI().toURL());

            // Create the ShapefileDataStore from our factory based on
our Map object
            ShapefileDataStore dStore = (ShapefileDataStore)
factory.createNewDataStore(map);

            dStore.createSchema(fet.getSchema());
            dStore.forceSchemaCRS(crs);

[...]

        String featureName = dStore.getTypeNames()[0];
        DefaultTransaction transaction = null;
        FeatureStore store = null;


            // Create the DefaultTransaction Object
            transaction = new DefaultTransaction();

            // Tell it the name of the shapefile it should look for in
our DataStore
            store = (FeatureStore) data.getFeatureSource(featureName);

            // Then set the transaction for that FeatureStore
            store.setTransaction(transaction);
            store.addFeatures(collection);
            transaction.commit();
            transaction.close();
            return true;


???????

Thanks for any help,
Andrea