[Qgis-developer] adding python interpreter to QGis mapserver to expose analysis routines

[G. Allegri]

2011/10/20 Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:00 PM, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I imagine a plugin system, similar to Qgis Desktop, where every service
> is
> > discovered/registered if available in certain library paths.
>
> I am not sure if such implicit (automatic) registration would be good.
> Imagine that you have several web services. You would like to run a
> public WMS server and also another bunch of services for a limited
> group of users. Having all the services available in both instances
> would not be very good - e.g. with a WMS server you may automatically
> provide WPS server.


Looking at similar architectures, Geoserver seems to work this way, leaving
to a security/configuration layer to enable and control the availability of
the extensions.
Anyway, we can avoid an automatic discovering, and control their exposure
through a configuration system (eg a simple configurations file).


>
> > For the Python side I see two features that could be supplied:
> >  - Provide a qgispython to the services that require it to run python
> > scripting. We can reuse a code very similar (the same?) as in Qgis
> Desktop
> >  - Design a Python interface to "control" the Server. This would permit
> to
> > write Python frontends to the server, and incorporate Qgis Server inside
> > Python server projects
>
> As noted in an earlier mail this is mostly just a matter of providing
> wrappers for the server/service interfaces.
>

I agree


>
> Martin
>
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