Currently we don't have any session based or temporary resources. We did discussed that something in that direction could be done. Perhaps to store complex URI to be reused too.
What MG REST extension supports now is that you can pass in query filter not only geometry but also URI which represent that geometry ( that resource). In that way you can construct query which would return parcels under building without sending building geometry but only URI representing that building. e.g. \REST\parcel\.html?bbox=http:\\...\rest\building\3 would return parcels under bbox of building with id 3 btw, in this case parcels and buildings can be even served on different servers. Haris -----Original Message----- From: Jason Birch [mailto:jason.bi...@nanaimo.ca] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:20 PM To: MapGuide Users Mail List Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] MapGuide REST Extension Not sure why you would want to pass those features as a GET? Are you maybe talking about selection or buffering by a user-defined polygon? If so, then the correct pattern would be to post that feature to a session-based resource, and then reference that resource when doing the selection. Hmm. I don't think that the framework currently supports accessing session-based resources, but that's certainly something to think about. Haris, do you have any insight into this? The other option would be to send a POST with a "method" override in either the HTTP headers or as a parameter. Doing this breaks REST design philosophy, and I wouldn't be all that happy to see it as a primary access method, but many frameworks allow it. Jason -----Original Message----- From: GordonL Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] MapGuide REST Extension the REST extension looks really promising. I particularly like the "code-free" aspect to extract attributes and coordinates of the features. Have you found it limiting due to the GET limitations. For example, I often have features with thousands of vertices, and it would be difficult passing those features as a GET... _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users