[mapserver-dev] RFC 67 - Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web Services

[Daniel Morissette]

At the sprint, it is this issue of turning on/off layers that led us to 
this idea of reorganising all OGC web service metadata, but it was not a 
direct solution to the problem of enabling/disabling layers/requests, 
but more a tangent that we ended up taking as part of our brainstorming, 
in part because we could not come up with a clean solution to the 
show/hide layer problem at the time.

I see RFC 67 and its simple solution to this complicated issue as a 
separate task from this metadata reorganization. RFC 67 adds only a 
couple of metadata keywords when we've already got dozens, so there is 
no reason that the metadata refactoring needs to happen in sync' with 
RFC 67.

IF we were to proceed with a metadata refactoring we'd need to put more 
thoughts and time into it and its possible impacts, make sure the new 
solution really works better, produce a RFC for it, etc... so I think it 
may be a bit late to do that for 6.0 and we should continue with RFC 67 
as is. As Steve wrote, both mechanisms can be made to work in parallel 
so this could be done in a 6.x release too if one decides that this is a 
high enough priority to put time into it.

That's my 0.02$ on the question... what do you think?

Daniel

On 11-02-14 11:46 AM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
> We could consider supporting the more specific OWS block with an option to populate it
> via standard metadata for backwards compatibility. Then if users want the extra control
> the OWS block would provide they'd need to move to definition via that mechanism.
>
> E.g. wms_title key maps to a title key in the OWS block.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Boudreault [mailto:aboudreault at mapgears.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:25 AM
> To: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: Lime, Steve D (DNR); Jeff McKenna
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] RFC 67 - Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web Services
>
> IIRC, the reason why we didn't choice that option was because it would have
> require too many mapfile modifications for the users.
>
> Daniel, please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Alan
>
> On February 14, 2011 09:44:30 am Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
>> I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for pulling these Jeff. The idea back
>> then was to be explicit with the OWS configs, hence their own object.
>>
>> Steve
>> ________________________________________
>> From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
>> [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 8:43 AM
>> To: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] RFC 67 - Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web
>> Services
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I just fell upon our old notes from the 2009 code sprint, and in it
>> contains the example on how we proposed during that meeting to solve
>> this hiding services issue:
>>
>>     LAYER
>>       ...
>>       OWS
>>          SERVICE
>>            TYPE WMS
>>            REQUESTS ALL # ALL, ONE, or specific request to accept for
>> this layer
>>            "key1" "value1"
>>            "key2" "value2"
>>          END
>>          SERVICE
>>            TYPE WFS
>>            REQUESTS ...
>>            ...
>>          END
>>       END
>>     END
>>
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/TorontoCodeSprint2009Notes
>>
>> Is there a reason to use metadata instead of the above?
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>> On 11-02-10 4:11 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> Hello Alan, Daniel, and Assefa,
>>>
>>> Thanks for putting together this RFC, for this much-needed enhancement.
>>> I must say that I am impressed with the elaborate solution proposed. As
>>> I was reading it I had some questions about what-overrides-what, but I
>>> see that is covered in the 'Inheritance' section. Regarding disabling
>>> all services by default, I totally agree with this and now is the time
>>> to make this change. It just puts pressure on the documentation to make
>>> sure it is explained well :)
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>> On 11-02-09 10:18 PM, Alan Boudreault wrote:
>>>> Hi devs,
>>>>
>>>> Daniel, Assefa and I worked on the ability to enable/disable layers in
>>>> OGC Web
>>>> Services. We tried to choose the easiest solution from a user point of
>>>> view.
>>>> We would like to get this for the release 6.0.
>>>>
>>>> http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-67.html
>>>>
>>>> Let us know your comments and thoughts.
>>
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Daniel Morissette
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