[geotk] Documentation on how to use CSW client

[Martin Desruisseaux]

Hello Erik, and welcome!

We do not have a good documentation for Geotk. The reason is that after 
we joined the Apache SIS project, Geotk has been reoriented as a sandbox 
for SIS. Everything in Geotk may disappear after the functionality has 
been transfered to SIS. And indeed, the Geotk code size slowly decreases 
as time passes and SIS takes over.

CSW is one of the (many) functionalities not yet transferred to SIS (but 
it may happen in the future). For now, compiling Geotk require the 
following steps (I fully agree this is tedious):

  * Clone https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoapi/ and build the master
    branch.
  * Clone https://github.com/apache/sis and build the *geoapi-4.0*
    branch (not master).
  * Clone https://github.com/Geomatys/geotoolkit/ and build the master
    branch.

If changes are pulled from Geotk, it may require to pull changes from 
GeoAPI et SIS and rebuild them before to build Geotk.

     Regards,

         Martin


Le 19/02/2020 à 13:59, Erik Ravhed a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> I was looking for a CSW client written in Java that I could use to 
> search CSW catalogs. One of the first results I found was Geotoolkit 
> and it seems like it fits my use case really well. Now I'm wondering 
> if there is any documentation on how to incorporate the Geotoolkit CSW 
> client into a project. I tried following the CSW client demo 
> (CSWClientDemo.java) available in the Geotoolkit repository but I get 
> can't find any documentation of which dependencies I should include in 
> my maven project. Is there any documentation like that available? Will 
> I have to include dependencies to the entire Geotoolkit library and 
> Apache SIS or can I use a subset of dependencies?
>
> I also tried to clone Geotoolkit and compile it (I tried to run maven 
> install) but I was unable to do so. Is there any documentation 
> regarding how to compile Geotoolkit as well?
>

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