I'm trying to count the vertices on line segments. The data is a .GDB and has complex line segments that contain fillets and arcs. The VertexCounter is calculating an incorrect number of vertices for line segments that contain arcs. Is there a work-around for these more complex line segments?
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VertexCounter transformer giving incorrect vertex count on line segments containing arcs.
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david_r wrote:
I think a PythonCaller with this check should work:
geom = feature.getGeometry()
if isinstance(geom, fmeobjects.FMEPath):
# feature geometry is an FMEPath instance
I was thinking of a non-python solution. It seems strange that you can't filter out paths when there are quite a few cases where you might want to treat them differently. I can fudge it with a combination of a GeometryPropertySetter and GeometryPropertyExtractor but i'm surprised there's not a better way
ebygomm wrote:
I was thinking of a non-python solution. It seems strange that you can't filter out paths when there are quite a few cases where you might want to treat them differently. I can fudge it with a combination of a GeometryPropertySetter and GeometryPropertyExtractor but i'm surprised there's not a better way
Unfortunately I'm not aware of any non-Python solution either. I agree that it would be handy if e.g. the GeometryFilter allowed you to check for path.
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ebygomm wrote:
I was thinking of a non-python solution. It seems strange that you can't filter out paths when there are quite a few cases where you might want to treat them differently. I can fudge it with a combination of a GeometryPropertySetter and GeometryPropertyExtractor but i'm surprised there's not a better way
That's another one I'll raise with the developers. Seems crazy there is no way to tell if a feature is a path. Not even fme_type or fme_geometry will do it.
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ebygomm wrote:
I was thinking of a non-python solution. It seems strange that you can't filter out paths when there are quite a few cases where you might want to treat them differently. I can fudge it with a combination of a GeometryPropertySetter and GeometryPropertyExtractor but i'm surprised there's not a better way
Filed as an enhancement request. The only other way I can see is to use GeometryExtractor to output XML and then check for the <path> tag.
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mark2atsafe wrote:
Filed as an enhancement request. The only other way I can see is to use GeometryExtractor to output XML and then check for the <path> tag.
My fudge was to set a geometry name then use the GeometryPropertyExtractor to only extract path - only paths come out the extracted port then
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