// Boost.Geometry (aka GGL, Generic Geometry Library) // // Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Mateusz Loskot, London, UK. // // Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License, // Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at // http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) // Boost.Geometry (aka GGL, Generic Geometry Library) // SOCI example // d: using WKB to retrieve geometries // SOCI is a generic C++ template interface to access relational databases // To build and run this example, see comments in example a // Alternatively compile composing and executing compiler command directoy in examples directory, // for example using GCC compiler: // g++ -I../../../boost -I/home/mloskot/usr/include/soci \ // -I /home/mloskot/usr/include/soci/postgresql -I/usr/include/postgresql \ // -L/home/mloskot/usr/lib -lsoci_core-gcc-3_0 -lsoci_postgresql-gcc-3_0 x03_c_soci_example.cpp #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include int main() { try { // establish database connection soci::session sql(soci::postgresql, "dbname=ggl user=ggl password=ggl"); // construct schema of table for trees (point geometries) sql << "DELETE FROM geometry_columns WHERE f_table_name = 'parcels'"; sql << "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS parcels CASCADE"; sql << "CREATE TABLE parcels (id INTEGER)"; sql << "SELECT AddGeometryColumn('parcels', 'geom', -1, 'GEOMETRY', 2)"; // insert sample data using plain WKT input sql << "INSERT INTO parcels VALUES(1, ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON ((10 10, 10 20, 20 20, 20 15, 10 10))', -1))"; sql << "INSERT INTO parcels VALUES(2, ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON ((0 0, 4 0, 4 4, 0 4, 0 0))', -1))"; sql << "INSERT INTO parcels VALUES(3, ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON((1 1,2 1,2 2,1 2,1 1))', -1))"; // query data in WKB form and read to geometry object soci::rowset rows = (sql.prepare << "SELECT encode(ST_AsBinary(geom), 'hex') AS wkb FROM parcels"); // calculate area of each parcel for (soci::rowset::iterator it = rows.begin(); it != rows.end(); ++it) { // parse WKB and construct geometry object std::string const& hex = *it; std::vector wkb; if (!boost::geometry::hex2wkb(*it, std::back_inserter(wkb))) throw std::runtime_error("hex2wkb translation failed"); boost::geometry::model::polygon > parcel; if (!boost::geometry::read_wkb(wkb.begin(), wkb.end(), parcel)) throw std::runtime_error("read_wkb failed"); double a = boost::geometry::area(parcel); std::cout << "Parcel geometry: " << boost::geometry::wkt(parcel) << std::endl << "\thas area is " << a << " in coordinate units" << std::endl; } } catch (std::exception const &e) { std::cerr << "Error: " << e.what() << '\n'; } return 0; }