[OpenLayers-Dev] bbox strategy and zooming

[Eric Lemoine]

Thanks for putting this patch together Tim.

Initially Chris wanted that the bbox strategy behave aggressively on
zoom in, but, as an optimization, only if the number of features in
the layer is not lower than the maxfeatures value set in the protocol.

The change you're proposing wouldn't allow this. The change I proposed
involved adding a new Integer option to the bbox strategy. If that
option is null the strategy behaves as currently. If it's non-null
then it behaves aggressively if the number of features in the layer is
not lower than the option value.

Chris was concerned with configuration data duplication - maxfeatures
is kinda set in the protocol as well as in the strategy; which doesn't
bother me actually.

You may concerned with the fact that my proposed option targets a
specific case (maxfeatures-parameterized requests) and doesn't address
other, maybe more common, cases. I actually don't see other cases when
a more aggressive mode makes sense, but that's probably just me.

Cheers,

Eric

2008/11/13, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org>:
> Hey-
>
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> I'm still lost as to how to go about coding what I want :) I want to
>> have maxfeatures, and more aggressive invalidation because of it. Any
>> suggestinos as to how I might go about implementing that, or should I
>> just toss together something and people will look at afterwards?
>>
>
> If you haven't already tossed something together, see the patch for
> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1830.
>
> Set resFactor to 1 if you want to request features with every change in
> resolution.
>
> Tim
>
>> Regards,
>
>
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