This isn't the correct place for a long discussion but, since the topic
came up, I should note:
https://github.com/boundlessgeo/gsconfig is a python library for
interacting w/ the REST API
https://github.com/boundlessgeo/suite-qgis-plugin is a qgis plugin that
supports functionality similar to GeoServer ArcAdmin and more
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Moules <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm not a GeoServer developer, but I loiter around on the list and have a
> ArcGIS install.
>
> I quite like it though don't envision using it myself.
>
> Have you considered making it a QGIS plugin? That's more in keeping with
> the Open Source ethos (not that this isn't potentially useful) I imagine
> your python scripts could be made fairly portable if you separate the logic
> up.
>
> Some thoughts below, mostly little feature enhancement things. Apologies
> for the longish list; I didn't test everything but put down what I noticed.
>
> 1) The readme has a ".md" extension for some reason.
>
> 2) The readme doesn't say how to install it. I see that's online.
>
> 3) I wanted to install the script here: C:\GeoServer-ArcAdmin-1.0\
> But it didn't work because the toolbox couldn't find the script - it seems
> you've hardcoded the location that the toolbox is looking for the script.
> If possible I'd strongly suggest making it look for relative locations
> rather than absolute locations. Not everyone will be able to create a
> directory in their C:\ drive with the applicable name.
>
> 4) When I got it installed and tried to use it, I received this error
> (because it turns out my test server was turned off! :-) ):
>
>> Running script newWorkspace...
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "C:\GeoServer ArcAdmin\workspaceOlustur.py", line 30, in <module>
>> response = urllib2.urlopen(istek)
>> File "D:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\Lib\urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
>> return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
>> File "D:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\Lib\urllib2.py", line 394, in open
>> response = self._open(req, data)
>> File "D:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\Lib\urllib2.py", line 412, in _open
>> '_open', req)
>> File "D:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\Lib\urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
>> result = func(*args)
>> File "D:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\Lib\urllib2.py", line 1199, in http_open
>> return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
>> File "D:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\Lib\urllib2.py", line 1174, in do_open
>> raise URLError(err)
>> URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed
>> because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of
>> time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to
>> respond>
>> Failed to execute (newWorkspace).
>>
>
> - You may want to make the error messages more human-friendly if possible
> - I understood the meaning, but others may not. Also you may wish to remove
> the stacktrace for "obvious" errors like the server not responding so you
> can make the error even more user friendly.
>
> 5) If possible, the tools remembering the URL/credentials entered
> previously would be *really* useful. Ideally for all tools (so enter the
> credentials in one tool, they get pre-filled-in in all tool). Having to
> re-enter them every time would get very irksome very quickly. If you do
> this, an option to enable or disable "saving" the password locally would be
> an idea (some people may not wish it to be saved for security reasons,
> others might).
>
> 6) Looking at the help for "Upload Compressed File" - it says "Shapefile
> must be top of the ZIP archive." - I'm not clear what that actually means.
>
> 7) You may want to use * (asterisks) for the password to hide it.
>
>
> And please, please, add comments to your Python code! :-) There are only 3
> in the entire thing. Even if they are in Turkish(?) they'll help someone in
> the future if they want to utilise it.
>
>
> Hope that helps; as noted, it looks like quite a nice little tool,
> especially for adding data to GeoServer.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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