[gdal-dev] WCS: Bug in WCSDataset110::GetCoverageRequest()

Peter Baumann p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
Tue Oct 9 06:09:52 PDT 2018



On 09.10.2018 15:06, jratike80 wrote:
> Odd Ragnar Lydersen wrote
>> I think there is a bug in WCSDataset110::GetCoverageRequest()
>> At line 178: "&VERSION=%s&REQUEST=GetCoverage&IDENTIFIER=%s"
>> Should be : "&VERSION=%s&REQUEST=GetCoverage&IDENTIFIERS=%s"
>>
>> At least that fixes my problem, and I can get one step further in my
>> effort to use the wcs driver, using C++ API, on Windows.
>>
>>> Odd-Ragnar<
> Hi,
>
> I believe that GDAL is right and the WCS server that you are using is wrong.
> By reading the standard https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/07-067r5
> the name of the parameter in GetCoverage is "identifier". However, for
> making it a bit more complicated for the developers it is called
> "identifiers" in DescribeCoverage.

well, design by committee effect if you will: DescribeCoverage can have more
than one parameters, so it was requested to change to plural in the course of
the adoption discussions.
whatever way you do it, you will do it wrong ;-)

cheers,
Peter (WCS/CIS spec editor)


>
> "This single ―identifiers parameter shall correspond to the repeatable
> ―identifier parameter in the UML model."
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
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