Connector Architecture
Connectors build the baseline input/output processing. On the one hand this includes importing (or connecting) data to the Ilwis environment, but also operate on that data. There are
- Data connectors and
- Process connectors
Both are building the fundament of working with data in Ilwis. Ilwis provides a well-defined connector API so that actual implementation is arbitrary (see picture below).
Data connectors simple translates from external data sources (database, files, remote services, ..) to the internal data model of Ilwis. The internal data model is designed in a way that the physical nature of the connected data format (gml, GeoTiff, shp, ...) has no impact of its logical representation. The data organization is handled by the Ilwis core which provides a simple API to work with that data once being loaded.
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