[Qgis-developer] [QGIS-Server] Adding Web Processing Service, partially funded

[Vincent Picavet]

Hello,

Le vendredi 20 décembre 2013 09:06:06, Pirmin Kalberer a écrit :
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> > > The final goal is to execute QGIS-Processing Server-side.
> > > 
> > > The first step was to run QGIS-Processing headless. I made a pull
> > > request which needs review and test.
> > > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1031
> 
> Really great news!

Other question : do you rely on qgis.core only then for QGIS processing now ?

> > > Next steps: developing the WPS interface and executing algorithms
> > > server side.
> > 
> > Are you going to reuse the excellent PyWPS framework, or build a specific
> > one ?
> 
> A simple but powerful solution would be to implement an export to PyWPS
> Python code similar to the existing Python export.

+1 for that, simple, flexible and powerful. And Unix spirit too :-)
If we want tighter integration, it is a matter of packaging PyWPS with QGIS.
Or implement a way of sending bundled WPS scripts from QGIS to a PyWPS server.

As for performances, I think having python for serving WPS is not damaging, 
since the performances issues are more related to the algorithms 
implementation than the WPS server itself.

Vincent