Yes, please - I was struggling with this the other day.
Ian
On 5 October 2017 at 14:31, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to propose we bring back the OL2 preview as an alternative
> output format "application/openlayers2".
>
> The reason is quite simple, I'm tired of pulling hairs with the current
> canvas based preview.
> I just spend some days debugging issues that were happening mostly when
> doing requests in tiled mode,
> and hunting down the right request in the network logs has been quite a
> drag of time.
>
> Yes, there is a system variable to bring back the OL2 preview, but it's
> not the default, cannot be easily
> activated on a production system.
>
> Also, at least from a didactic perspective, it's nice to pull up OL2 and
> tell the students to just right click on the
> map/the tiles and see that it's really just a WMS call, rather than
> pulling up the dev tools and also explain
> them the network view in the process.
>
> Of course I'm not proposing to simply go back to OL2, but in some ways
> the OL3 preview is not
> a full replacement for the old OL2, so imho best to have them both
> available at the same time
> by just changing a request parameter, keeping OL2 as a possible option
> while OL3+ remains
> the default for previews.
>
> Objections? :-)
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
> PS: another very annoying thing is that the OL3 preview just shows nothing
> when
> a request fails, instead of a "broken image" like in OL2, but I guess for
> this there are solutions,
> like using "error in image" for exceptions or something like that, sounds
> more like a bug in need
> of fixing instead of an architectural problem.
>
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