On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Mike Pumphrey <m...@opengeo.org> wrote: > Hi there. I just submitted a patch with some basic WPS docs. > > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-4350 > > To make it easier for people to read (and to see the graphics), I committed > this first draft on 2.1.x. It should show up here after the next nightly > build: > > http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/extensions/wps/index.html > > Feedback appreciated.
A few notes: - "the names of processes are case sensitive". Actually in OGC style request that is normal, all keys are case insenstive, all values are case sensitive. Process names are no exception, just like feature type names, coverage names, and wms layer names - the buffer in the example returns a square... correct answer given the params, but a little outside what one would expect from a buffer operation - in the geoserver processes paragraph you say "These functions have the added bonus of being able to operate on existing layers in GeoServer, and can even write the output to a new GeoServer layer". Actually any process can work against existing GS layers, it just needs to be able to consume a feature collection or a grid coverage. And not even that in some cases, the JTS processes can feed off the GS layers via the internal WFS request if that one is chained in gs:CollectGeometries which turns the feature collection into a single geometry (it collects everything into a big multi-geometry) - the trick GS uses to get data off the internal WFS/WCS is to use a special URL for the wfs/wcs server, http://geoserver/wfs and http://geoserver/wcs (if memory serves me right) and that part is just a GS convention, it's not anything that is part of the standard - that said GS can feed off any remote WFS/WCS just fine (provided the chosen output format can be parsed by GS), and in general, but any remote call whatsoever that returns something parseable (it might be a php script returning GML for example) Cheers Andrea -- Ing. Andrea Aime Technical Lead 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 ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
