According to naming conventions I think, that pure interface classes should start with I (e.g. IGDALRasterDataset, IGDALVectorDataset).
For the Abstract class maybe such naming will sute:
GDALEmptyRasterDataset -> GDALRasterDataset
GDALAbstractRasterDataset -> GDALRasterDatasetBase
GDALIRasterDataset -> IGDALRasterDataset

Best regards,
    Dmitry

25.03.2014 16:13, Vincent Mora пишет:
On 25/03/2014 11:44, Even Rouault wrote:
Selon Vincent Mora <[email protected]>:

On 24/03/2014 21:46, Even Rouault wrote:
Hi,

"Release soon, release early", so for people who like UML diagrams (there
is
also a prototype of C++ classes for those who don't like UML very much),
here's
a blog entry with the outcome of my thoughts for a possible re-organisation
of
the GDAL/OGR class hierarchy


http://erouault.blogspot.ca/2014/03/draft-gdalogr-class-hierarchy-for-gdal.html
I don't understand the need for HandleRasterData() and HandleVectorData().

Isn't inheriting from GDALEmptyRasterDataset or GDALEmptyVectorDataset
sufficient to convey the information that the class doesn't handle those
kind of datasets.

A call to GetLayerCount()/GetRasterCount() from the class user is
sufficient to say "no vector/raster data here", and a dynamic _cast to
GDALEmptyVectorDataset/GDALEmptyRasterDataset is even clearer to me, so
HandleRasterData()/HandleVectorData() would be a third way to tell the
same thing.
Actually, when thinking more about this, this kind of information should be at the driver level, and not at the dataset level. The idea is that there are use cases where you want to know if a driver can handle only vector, only raster, or both. For example if you still want to have separate Open dialog boxes for
raster or vector.
Also I'm not sure about the names GDALAbstract* since those are partial
implementations.
I know I'm not very good at naming. Do you have an alternative proposal ? The issue is that with my draft we end up with a lot of classes and interfaces, so
it is not obvious to find a good name to reflect their content.
Partial sound ok to me, but I not so good at naming ?

Considering the number of classes, I gave it some thoughts this morning and, like Dmitry, thought of merging the Abtract (Partial) into the interface before realizing that, even if it works (you can overload de default function in Empty) it's a bit ugly and I ended up preferring your solution.

An altenative would be to have a Dataset with both aspects and provide three partial specialisations: one for vector (it will behave like empty raster) one for raster, and one for both. Code duplications could be avoided by implementing protected member functions in the Dataset class and simply calling them in the implementations of partial specialization. This solution avoid the diamond shaped inheritance diagram of hell :)

Even



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