MS RFC 22a: Feature cache for long running processes and query processing (update)

[Daniel Morissette]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> Would it make sense to have a function for getting the shape from
> the result cache?  So that we could leave it null for some providers
> (like shape or raster) and have this function call getShape when it isn't
> in the result cache?
> 

Probably a good idea. However the current getShape() function requires 
that the caller takes care of calling open/close on the layer. Before 
this function is added we'd need to decide how the open/close calls are 
handled in the cases where it calls getShape().

Daniel
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