Re: [Geotools-devel] Using native filters in queries

2018-03-21 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi, adding my 2 cents, one more distinction that is kind of important given Nuno's use case, that is security related: an unknown query hint will just be ignored (bad, no security applied), a unknown filter is normally going to throw an exception somewhere (worst case, when it's being evaluated in

Re: [Geotools-devel] Using native filters in queries

2018-03-21 Thread Nuno Oliveira
Hi Jody, No sure I understand your comment: 1. you mean there is already something similar that can be done with query hints ? 2. or you mean we could use a query hint for this ? That say, one my first approaches was to take advantage of query hints but I step on to many limitations, just to