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Jim
Jim

Reputation: 21

Error while trying to add geometry types to my postgis connection

I have create a project with eclipse and added the postgis-jdbc-2.1.7.jar , postgresql-9.4.1208.jre6.jar to my class path.

Then I tried the example from the postgis documentation see example in order to connect to the db.

The following lines produce an error:

 /* 
* Add the geometry types to the connection. Note that you 
* must cast the connection to the pgsql-specific connection 
* implementation before calling the addDataType() method. 
*/
   ((org.postgresql.PGConnection)conn).addDataType("geometry",Class.forName("org.postgis.PGgeometry"));
   ((org.postgresql.PGConnection)conn).addDataType("box3d",Class.forName("org.postgis.PGbox3d"));

The error is the following:

The method addDataType in the type connection is not applicable for the arguments

Has anyone else faced the same error?

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 72

Answers (1)

JackGSB
JackGSB

Reputation: 11

Is this a run-time error? Perhaps Class.forName() is returning null. Try making a static reference to the class by replacing the call to "Class.forName()" with "org.postgis.PGgeometry.class" which will fail at compile time instead of run time if your classpath is off.

Upvotes: 1

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