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[Steve Lime]

Denis: The geometry case is handled already through a bunch of GML
metadata tags
I wrote last summer. Geometries and attributes can be supressed on a
layer by layer 
basis. There are no WEB metadata equivalents for those.

Steve

>>> Denis Nadeau <denis.nadeau at GMAIL.COM> 11/16/2006 1:43:11 PM >>>
2006/11/16, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>:
>
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> >
> > I think if the wcs service is listed but the layer is not a raster
> layer,
> > or does not have DUMP TRUE set, then an error should be emitted
> explaining
> > the problem.
> >
>
> An option could be to emit a <!-- WARNING ... --> comment in the
> GetCapabilities when this layer is being processed. At least for WMS
and
> WFS, WARNINGs in GetCapabilities are used this way to report several
> potential config issues or missing pieces of info.
>
> > I also think there should be an "all" option indicating that a
layer
> > should be made visible to all *applicable* services.
> >
>
> Or a way to make 'all' the default? For instance, we could allow
setting
> "ows_service" "wms, wfs" in the WEB metadata, and this value would
be
> inherited by default by all layers unless they have their own
> ows_service metadata. This way if you want to include 20 layers and
> exclude only one or two you can do it easily without having to set
> ows_service on all layers in the mapfile.


Daniel,

I like the idea of seting ows_service in the WEB to default to all
layers
unless ows_service is specified in a specify layer.

Although, this idea does not cover bug 300 about the output of
"geometry".

I first thought of "ows_service" as a way to turn a layer on and off
and in
bug 300 Doug Cate talks about "Outputs attribute fields (with our
without)
the geometry".  I think we would need another metadata for this matter
something like "ows_service_geometry".

Right now, I am willing to start writting code for ows_service
metadata.
For the "geometry" case I would prefer to postpone it until I get to
know
MapServer code better.

Denis