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geometrycoercer - OGC WKT type

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August 14, 2014
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burton449

I discovered that the OGC WKT geometry obtained by the geometryCoercer is not a string object but a bytearray object

In a python caller:

wkt = feature.getAttribute('_geometry')

print type(wkt)

>>> <type 'bytearray'>

I think that's weird because WKT stands for Well Known Text and should be just string object. In my experience FME is the only tool where WKT geometry is not a string. Why FME store WKT in a bytearray object?

Best answer by burton449

Alright the answer to convert WKT bytearray to string is the following:

in a python caller:

wkt = str(feature.getAttribute('_geometry').decode("ascii", "ignore"))

print type(wkt)

>>> <type 'str'>

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