CIao Andrea, I am +1 about this since I think it would make a useful addition. I am not too worried about putting this in at this point.
SImone. ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Simone Giannecchini GeoSolutions S.A.S. Founder Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584962313 fax: +39 0584962313 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini http://twitter.com/simogeo ------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > during the last two days I've spent some hours trying to build > another request builder. > > Given the good success of the WPS one, and seeing as I hoped that > it makes playing with WPS much easier, getting new users started > and giving devs a tool to try their processes quickly, I've decided to > make one for GeoServer's black sheep service, WCS. > > I say black sheep because it's undoubtedly the less used and as > a result the less debugged of the available OWS services. > With good reason, and it's not because nobody likes rasters, but > more because both WCS 1.0 and WCS 1.1 requests are stupidly > hard to build by hand. > > I've just attached to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-4282 a > patch that adds said builder along with a couple of screenshots. > > Highlights: > - allows to build both WCS 1.0 and WCS 1.1 requests > - figures out the obscure params for you, but also allows one to > fill them in manually > > Issues: > - it makes it painfully clear that WCS reprojection is not quite > working (in neither versions) > - the grid layout parameter guessing code could certainly use > some more love > - the CRS choosers are still open ended, they should allow > only for the CRSs declared in the coverage description instead > - band selection is still missing (that's probably the first thing > I'm going to add) > - they are brand new so quite possibly buggy > - they use ajax a lot, this makes unit testing them quite hard > (in my experience WicketTester support for forms that have > a lot of dynamic elements leaves a lot to be desired) > > I personally see more pros than cons and I'd like to commit the > patch in the web-wcs module, hoping this will trigger some > more usage and development on the WCS side. > > However this is a decision that needs to be taken as a group, > since this would be fresh code getting straight into core (even if > it's just a demo panel). > > Opinions, feedback welcomed > > Cheers > Andrea > > PS: anyone up to build a WFS request builder? WFS requests > are easy but very often people get the syntax slightly wrong ;-) > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Ing. Andrea Aime > Senior Software Engineer > > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584962313 > fax: +39 0584962313 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime > http://twitter.com/geowolf > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers > to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, > should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database > without downtime or disruption > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
