On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:35 PM, <christian.muel...@nvoe.at> wrote: > Hi Andrea > > I am with you, the first target is to be compliant to the specifications. > WPS would be a clean solution.
Mind, I'm not saying that WFS should be left out of the game, but that there should be some solution that cleanly extends WFS and open the door to all kind of transformations, instead of having an increasingly brittle set of extra addressing all the possible use cases where WFS fails to satisfy the user needs. One example is rendering transformations, we set them up to allow mixing processing and styling in an open ended way and it is bearing fruits, other people is adding support for heatmaps, point clustering, on the fly scattered point interpolation and so on based on such mechanism. Something similar for WFS would imho be acceptable, a convenience to apply on the fly one of many available processes to the WFS output, transforming its structure into something different. Could be seen, for example, as a custom output format, configurable in some way, like for example the discussions we have seen in the past where people would like to have a XSLT based output format for GeoServer. It's not there yet, but it's not bad per se, because it's an open ended mechanism that allows for future growth. What would worry me would be an output format that does a custom transformation instead, because we'd end up with a billion of them (anybody is free to implement the custom one btw, it's just not material for the public GeoServer code base imho). Cheers Andrea -- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
