Thanks for that Jody.

Michael

On 6 May 2010 23:18, Jody Garnett  wrote:
> Hey you have my input already: Just allow changes to metadata: CS, namespace, 
> and others :-)
> (what does that even mean?)
>
> Okay all kidding aside the goal here is to replace an existing table; or 
> shapefile with a new one based on the provided schema. We try and carry 
> across the current contents; but the technique is not very sophisticated so 
> we better document as safe for:
> - adding attributes  (the default value of the new attribute descriptors will 
> be used)
> - removing attributes (don't include them in the schema you are providing)
>
> And remain carefully silent about modification of existing attributes.
>
> Thinking:
> - To actually allow change/addition of attributes we would need to supply an 
> expression; for modified attribute. Personally with the current api I would 
> attach an "update" expression to the attributes descriptors being passed in 
> and expect them to be evaluated to produce the "new values".
> - we should port the uDig "reshape" operation to geotools :-(
>
> Jody
>

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