Re: [JPP-Devel] Adding an attribute with a duplicate name to a FeatureSchema object.

2008-12-26 Thread Stefan Steiniger
actually the easiest thing to check what happens is by modifying a schema with the schema editor.. but - to answer your question: there is a method: FeatureSchema.hasAttribute() .. so no need for a new method stefan -

Re: [JPP-Devel] Adding an attribute with a duplicate name to a FeatureSchema object.

2008-12-26 Thread Stefan Steiniger
mhm.. I think you can add attributes with the same name - so no exception. So a check is worth to do, and I think some of the schema modifing plugins (i.e. transfer attributes?) do such a check. Because then one attribute name would receive a ending, saying that it is number 2 or so? However, I

[JPP-Devel] Adding an attribute with a duplicate name to a FeatureSchema object.

2008-12-25 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
OK. I've spent some time looking at the Javadoc and the source code for the FeatureSchema class, and I can't find the answer to this question: Would it make sense to check for the existence of an attribute in a FeatureSchema with the same name as an attribute that is being added to that schema, an