[postgis-users] PostGIS as WPS?

[Stefan Keller]

Dear Jorge, chèr Olivier

Thanks for your answers! I'll give Python a try.

Your, S.

2010/4/29 Jorge de Jesus <jorge.de-jesus at jrc.ec.europa.eu>:
> Hi Stefan
>
> Despite pyWPS being "GRASS oriented" there is no problem  on running
> (any) python code as a process, I am not certain what are your needs but
> you could program a process in just a few lines that would accept a SQL
> query as a WPS String Input and then have the output as WPS String of
> Complex (XML) ouput.
>
> It's up to you to write the process and define what input/output.
>
> If you have specific pyWPS questions it is better to use the its mailing
> list (http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/pywps-devel)
>
> Jorge
>
>
> Olivier Courtin wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:00 AM, Stefan Keller wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>>> General question: Are there projects around to turn PostGIS/PostgreSQL
>>> into a Web Processing Service (WPS)?
>>> I'm thinking of an approach similar to PyWPS which is a minimalist
>>> python wrapper code around GRASS.
>>
>> Well PyWPS allow you to write in Python any treatment that you want.
>> And there's of course ways in Python to connect to PostgreSQL.
>>
>> So you don't have to rewrite all the WPS part at all :)
>> Only few lines to do your own treatment with PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
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>> Olivier
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