[OpenLayers-Dev] Format.WFST: misleading name

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:19:27PM +0100, bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
> Ah right, I missed that one.
> 
> So this is something which can be changed at OL 3.0?

Yes; I dont' know enough to say whether it should be or not, but it
would be a candidate for that.

One reason that I feel the WFS-T name is more accurate, looking at the
Format.WFS code, is that the Format.WFS calls out to FOrmat.GML for
everything *except* creating transactions: reading is all done by GML. I
don't know enough to say whether this is correct or not, but that's hy
the *existing* format.wfs would probably be better as format.wfs-t. 

> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:08:51AM +0100, bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> maybe it's a bit too late to startup this discussion, but anyway, I
> >> think
> >> the name Format.WFST is a bit misleading, and I would prefer Format.WFS.
> >> It's misleading since it implies only transactional stuff, but
> >> Format.WFST
> >> also writes out stuff for non-transactional requests, such as
> >> GetFeature.
> >>
> >> If you look at the OGC spec, you'll see that the term WFS-T (or WFST) is
> >> not even an official name. The WFS spec has basic (read-only) and
> >> transactional parts and that is exactly what this format implements, so
> >> Format.WFS is more logical to me.
> >>
> >> What do others think?
> >
> > We already have an existing Format.WFS that we need to maintain for
> > backwards compatibility.
> >
> >> Best regards,
> >> Bart
> >>
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