[mapserver-dev] RFC 70: TinyOWS Integration

Yewondwossen Assefa yassefa at dmsolutions.ca
Mon May 2 18:15:47 EDT 2011


+1.
On 02/05/2011 1:51 PM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
> I'd like to propose getting Olivier commit rights for the documentation tree to maintain the RFC. Any objections?
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Courtin
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 2:13 AM
> To: MapServer Dev List
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] RFC 70: TinyOWS Integration
>
>
> On Apr 28, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
>
>> Hi all: Olivier floated a draft a few weeks ago and it's now sitting
>> alongside all other
>> RFCs which should make it a little easier to review:
>>
>>    http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-70.html
>>
>> Please take a look and let's move this forward.
>
>
> Few changes in RFC, as 1.0.0rc1 is just coming out
>
>
> --- Downloads/ms-rfc-70.txt	2011-05-02 08:58:52.000000000 +0200
> +++ Desktop/ms-rfc-70.txt	2011-05-02 09:08:56.000000000 +0200
> @@ -158,23 +158,29 @@
>    (No Xlink nor Lock profile implemented)
>
>    TinyOWS trunk on OGC CITE unit test:
> - - WFS-T 1.1.0 (r4) : 519 'Passed' / 34 'Failed'
> + - WFS-T 1.1.0 (r4) : 559 'Passed' / 0 'Failed'
> + - WFS-T 1.0.0 (r3) : 398 'Passed' / 0 'Failed'
>
>    4.5 External Dependancies
>    -------------------------
>     - LibXML2>= 2.6.20
>     - PostgreSQL>= 8.1.0
>     - PostGIS>= 1.5.0
> - - Flex
>     - FastCGI is optional (but recommended)
>
>    4.6 MapFile notions not yet addressed
>    -------------------------------------
>    Some Mapfile concepts are not yet present in TinyOWS:
> - - Supporting other database than PostGIS
> - - Ability to associate each layer to a different database connection
> - - Some specifics configuration stuff not required by OGC compliancy,
> -   but who still could be useful.
> + - Only PostGIS CONNECTIONTYPE are handled
> + - TinyOWS don't pretend to support right now all the WFS parameters
> available in MapFile
> + - But on the other hand you should be able to configure every part
> of TinyOWS from MapFile
> + - Each CONNECTION string value in layers must be the same.
> + - MapFile PROJECTION content is not parsed, so use explicit wfs_srs
> + - MapFile LAYER/FILTER is not parsed.
> + - Defaults values are TinyOWS ones, even for common properties
> shared by both apps.
> + - TinyOWS don't use DATA element from MapFile, so you have to use
> tinyows_table (and tinyows_schema if needed) in each layer.
> + - If DUMP is not set to TRUE on a layer both Read and Write access
> are shutdown for these layer
> +
>
>    4.7 Build system
>    ----------------
> @@ -191,6 +197,7 @@
>    - More exhaustive unit tests policy (not only OGC ones)
>    - More consistent behaviour and configuration directives for both
> TinyOWS and MS.
>    - Oracle Spatial support
> +- Application Schema support
>
>    5. Voting history
>    -----------------
>
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