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<p>Hi Anita,</p>
<p>Maybe you could add a section about "testing wanted / needed" at
the end of the blog post?<br>
</p>
<p>I think after such a lot of refactoring, users can expect
incompatibilities with the previous 2x version. Thats why a call
for testing should be included. Otherwise existing QGIS server
users maybe just upgrade without noticing and run into issues.</p>
<p>We just recently came across an incompatibility in the
GetProjectSettings command where the new version behaves
differently than the old version regarding the visibility state of
groups - issue report still pending. Issue was discovered by Eric
Lemoine (Camptocamp).</p>
<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>Andreas<br>
</p>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17.10.2017 22:36, Anita Graser
wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">I've extended Régis' draft with
some of the more recent information. Please let me know what
you think. I'll try to publish in a couple of days.</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">-- start --</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br>
</b></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>QGIS server refactoring is
done!<br>
</b><br>
As you may know, QGIS is jumping to a new major version
(yes!). Doing so was made necessary because of the need to
switch to python 3, QT5, but also because we needed to break
the QGIS API in several places. (<a
href="http://blog.qgis.org/2016/02/10/qgis-3-0-plans/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://blog.qgis.org/2016/02/<wbr>10/qgis-3-0-plans/</a>) </div>
<span class="gmail-im">
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
A year ago, a <a
href="https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/63"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">tiny troll </a>from
switzerland rang a bell about the strong need for love
server code base required. <span style="font-size:12.8px">Indeed,
the API was locked by some old methods of QGIS server.
In short, QGIS server was reparsing the qgs project file
in his own way, and created dependencies to part of QGIS
we needed to drop.</span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"> <br>
As outsourcing the server code base was not an option, so
we had to refactor it. The involved parties decided to get
engaged in a <a
href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QGIS3---QGIS-Server-code-sprint-Notes"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">code sprint</a> in
the city of Lyon , France dedicated to sharing their
vision, planning the work and finally making all the <a
href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/74"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">following</a> happen:</div>
</span>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">
<div><br>
</div>
<div><b>Higher level refactoring</b></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>All services (WMS GetMap, WFS GetFeature,
GetLegendGraphics, WCS, GetPrint etc..) have been
rewritten. Some like WMS were entirely rewritten. Kudos to
the devs!</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><b style="font-size:12.8px">New features</b><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">- <a
href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/3886"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Multi-thread
rendering</a> like in the desktop</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">-
A new option to </span><a
href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5094"
target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px"
moz-do-not-send="true">trust layer metadata</a><span
style="font-size:12.8px"> and thus speed up project
loading</span><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">-
WFS 1.1 support <a
href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5297"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/<wbr>qgis/QGIS/pull/5297</a> </span><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">- Full Python bindings for the
server API</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
<div><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span>- Server Services
as plugins like providers</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span class="gmail-im"><b style="font-size:12.8px">Deep,
complex and unrewarding tasks<br>
</b>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">- Remove all singleton
calls</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
</span>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">- Cut all the dependencies
to the old QGIS project file parser</div>
<span class="gmail-im">
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">- Minimize dependencies to
GUI library. Since fonts are necessary to render maps,
totally removing them was not feasable. </div>
</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<span class="gmail-im">
<div><b style="font-size:12.8px">Infrastructure tasks</b><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>- <a
href="http://oslandia.com/en/2017/06/16/qgis-server-ogc-cite-compliance-testing/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Build a OGC
compliancy platform</a> and integrate it to a
continuous integration platform. Conformity reports are
now pushed to <a href="http://tests.qgis.org/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">tests.qgis.org</a> </div>
<div><i style="background-color:rgb(255,0,0)"><br>
</i></div>
</span>
<div>- Add unit tests ... and again more unit tests</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail-adL"><span class="gmail-im">
<div>-<a
href="http://oslandia.com/en/2017/06/14/qgis-server-security-aspect/"
target="_blank" style="" moz-do-not-send="true"> Stress
QGIS server against security leaks</a> (SQL
injections and other malicious attacks)</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>- Start profiling and bench marking performances.
This work still need some love - and funding - to be
achieved</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>A <a
href="https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g-europe/foss4g-europe-2017-paris/src/master/presentations/2017-07-20/general_track/foss4g-europe-2017-QGIS_3_Refactoring_and_enhancement-DMarteau-PBlottiere.pdf"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">presentation</a> was
given at FOSS4G-EU in July. <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><b>Congratulations</b> to the developers who worked
hard on that work. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Now this deserves to be well tested, please report
back any issues!</div>
</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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