[Georuby-devel] Srid auto detection, manual models configuration.

[ValiSystem]

Hello,

I've beeing testing GeoRuby all this afternoon, and i've some  
question/suggestions :

1. Is there a way to define manually the geometry colomun using the  
table model ?
i think about something like that :

class Numvoiri < ActiveRecord::Base
   set_table_name "numvoiri"
   set_primary_key "numvoiri_id"
   set_srid 4326
   set_geometry_columns ["geom"]
   belongs_to :text,
              :class_name => "NumvoiriText",
              :foreign_key => "text_id"
end

to define column and override auto detection. I didn't manage to find  
something like that in docs, but i guess it's just missing. Or if  
needs to be coded, it could be nice to do it :)

2. As it's wrote in the docs, Postgis refuses to use operators  
between geometries with different srids. But this could be  
autodetected easily :

select srid from geometry_columns where
	f_table_catalog = '<the_catalog>' and
	f_table_schema = '<the_schema>' and
	f_table_name = '<the_table_name>' and
	f_geometry_column = '<the_geometry_column>';

Since tuples from geometry_columns are primary keys one attributes  
used in this where clause, you can safely assume that it will return  
a single element. Also, i would not, by default, define  
f_table_catalog and f_table_schema, and reduce query to always known  
attributes :

select srid from geometry_columns where
	f_table_name = '<the_table_name>' and
	f_geometry_column = '<the_geometry_column>';

and provide a mechanism to user to make them able to define the  
schema and catalog, and leave them the responsability to check that  
(but that needs to warn if several tuples are returned).

I may patch post_gis_adapter.rb  myself if you're interested, but i  
don't have a deep knowledge of rails internals.

Thanks for the good work.


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