Devs: in QGIS' MetaSearch plugin, we have had various issues being reported which are all rooted in the following behaviour.
When MetaSearch presents CSW results, records which have associated WMS/WMTS/WFS/WCS type links detected will have an "Add to [WMS/WMTS|WFS|WCS] button enabled. When the user clicks the button [1], MetaSearch (among other things) uses OWSLib to do a quick GetCapabilities test/check [2] as a means of verifying things before it's passed to the appropriate provider [3]. The original intent was to prevent erroneously detected URLs from getting to the provider dialogs, but it is looking like ([4], [5], [6]) this is turning to be more of a burden that does not yield additional value to the logic/checking already baked in the existing WMS/WMTS/WFS/WCS providers proper. So then MetaSearch just passes the URL as-is. Alex/Richard/Angelos: I propose lifting this out of MetaSearch per above. Comments/objections/other ideas? ..Tom [1] https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/plugin/MetaSearch/dialogs/maindialog.py#L644 [2] https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/plugin/MetaSearch/dialogs/maindialog.py#L672 [3] https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/plugin/MetaSearch/dialogs/maindialog.py#L721 [4] https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/issues/65 [5] https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/issues/64 [6] https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/issues/23 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
