[udig-devel] creating a feature with default values

[Harry Bullen]

Yea I just did this exact same thing and your code look almost
identical to mine.  So think you are on the right track.

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:23 PM, andrea antonello
<andrea.antonello at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi, I am trying to create a feature for an empty layer. The feature
>  > > should be created with all default values in it.
>  > >
>  > >
>  >  That is a little bit tough; sometimes a value is required (like say a
>  > geometry) and no sensible default can be provided.
>  >
>  >
>  > > What I thought I should do, is first to get the featuretype from the
>  > > layer and with that create a new feature, but I seem to be wrong.
>  > > The only way I found in that case is bound to the existence of an
>  > > existing feature.
>  > >
>  > > How can I achieve that?
>  > >
>  > >
>  >  Your approach sounded okay. What exactly about it was wrong?
>
>  I think I am yet trying to understand what exactly is inside the
>  attributetype object. I tried to do something like:
>
>                 AttributeType[] attributeTypes =
>  newFeatureType.getAttributeTypes();
>                 Object[] attributes = new Object[attributeTypes.length];
>                 for( int i = 0; i < attributeTypes.length; i++ ) {
>                     AttributeType attributeType = attributeTypes[i];
>                     if (attributeType instanceof GeometryAttributeType) {
>                         attributes[i] = somegeometry;
>                     }else{
>                         attributes[i] = attributeType.createDefaultValue();
>                     }
>                 }
>                 featureToUse = featureType.create(attributes);
>
>  Should this work?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Andrea
>
>
>
>
>
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