Re: DBF required in compressed shapefile

Yes, the problem is the call to CompressedFile.openFile() throws an exception if the file is not found.

In this case it looks like a try catch block around the call will do the trick.

Larry

On 9/25/07, Paul Austin <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Larry,

You're right the CompressedFile class throws an exception if it can't
find the file. Maybe you could add a boolean parameter to it to return
null instead of an exception if the file does not exist to allow you to
ignore missing files.

Paul

Larry Becker wrote:
> Apparently DBF files are required when loading a shapefile archive.  I
> got this message when trying to load world_vector_shoreline.zip:
> "couldn't find world_vector_shoreline.dbf in compressed file
> world_vector_shoreline.zip".
>
> If you extract it to a folder first, it loads without a problem.
> Sounds like the archive code is making unnecessary assumptions.
>
> regards,
> Larry Becker
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