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What is the state of m_b_union_all_dimensions in OperatorUnionCursor

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start in src/main/java/com/esri/core/geometry/OperatorUnionCursor.java at the m_b_union_all_dimensions flag and trace where it is set. Confirm the intended behavior for unioning multiple geometry dimensions and whether the current lower-dimension-dropping behavior is deliberate; the issue needs maintainer clarification before implementation scope and completion criteria can be defined.

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Description

I was looking at the source for OperatorUnionCursor, and found m_b_union_all_dimensions flag. I am curious what the intent of it is? It seems to always be set to false. Is the intent to one day allow support for OperatorUnionCursor to support multiple dimensions (as opposed to current behavior, which drops the lowest dimensions)? If that's what it was intended for, do we think it's feasible to modify this code to allow setting it to true when we want to allow support for unioning multiple dimensions of geometries with this operator?

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