+1

As discussed in the PMC meeting a couple weeks ago, I think the behaviour
should also be able to be configured by a system property / environment
variable.

Cheers,
Torben

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 10:09 AM Andrea Aime <
andrea.a...@geosolutionsgroup.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> the GeoServer WMS is not behaving as standard mandates when an invalid
> dimension
> value is provided. Since day one of dimension support, by giving a
> dimension value that
> does not match any one available, one just gets an empty map.
>
> Now, the specification says instead:
>
>    - If nearest match is enabled, just return the nearest (the search
>    radius and the ability to throw exceptions if outside of the nearest radius
>    are useful, but not compliant)
>    - If nearest is not enabled and the value does not match, throw an
>    InvalidDimensionException instead.
>
> Now, technically implementing point 2 is a fix... but the GeoServer
> behavior has been different for the past 10+ years.
>
> I'd say:
>
>    - Implement the behavior controlled by a WMS admin page flag
>    - Default behavior for main branch, make it standard compliant
>    - Default behavior for other branches, make it match the historical
>    behavior
>    - Allow people to flip the flag as they see fit
>
> Opinions?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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