+1 here, and I agree it'd be fine to just put in, even though it's
technically 'core', since nothing else depends on it.
As for tools vs demos, I'd say call it a tool, and just change the heading
from 'Collection of GeoServer adminstrative tools' to 'Collection of
GeoServer tools' or something.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Simone Giannecchini <
[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> 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 ;-)
> >
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