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| Re: [udig-devel] Re: [udig-users] ID of FID | 
andrea antonello wrote:
Not sure here. As a developer in these "standard" things I want to
rely on the "standard" tools of the application and not fork some
stuff and then maintain a fork.
  
It is more that we need to look at the code and see what we need to do; 
there are some configuration options around
the handling of FeatureID.
I agree about that, but anyway for the shapefiles the fid is never
stable, since every time I edit and save, the fid column is refreshed
and the original fid table is lost.
  
When you update; add and delete it should be stable (perhaps only on 
trunk?). Deleted rows may be filled in by subsequent adds as I recall.
 I think you can set a Hint or configuration option to include keys as
 readable attributes (up to you).
    
Again, I would not want to fork anything. Is this what you mean?
  
Lets figure out what we need - and then make it happen. The concept of 
FeatureID is a poor one to delegate to a file format or database; it 
probably should be defined as part of the data model IMHO.  You can also 
experiment and see if ShapefileDataStore will pick up an ID column as 
the FeatureID; even if it does not you may enjoy the idea enough to 
recommend it?
Jody