[Qgis-developer] QGIS GetProjectSettings request

[Ivan Mincik]

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On 02/04/2014 04:09 PM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> Hi Ivan
> 
> The idea of the GetProjectSettings is that the output is easily
> extendeable (because it is a non-standard method). So if there is some
> project information you think is usefull for your webclient, just add it to
> the code and I'm happy to apply pull requests in that respect. It is not
> the idea of GetProjectSettings to serve all project information, rather to
> extend on-demand.

Marco, thanks for your answer.
I think it could be very useful for many clients building on top of QGIS
Server to have such informations:

My quick proposal is to add:

Layer properties:
 * layer type
 * geometry type
 * source geometry SRID
 * primary key
 * layer transparency
 * layers group membership

and for Project:
* project title
* selection color
* background colors
* project scales
* canvas units
* precision

Do you think it is a good idea to add this informations to that
GetCapabilities-like XML response ?

Ivan

> 
> Regards, Marco
> 
> On 04.02.2014 15:18, Ivan Mincik wrote: Hi all, I would like to discuss
> purpose and content of a GetProjectSettings request.
> 
> - From the name of this request, it seems that it should return some
> project settings values. I would expect response where I will find similar
> information like it is saved in QGIS project file. In reality it returns
> only little bit extended GetCapabilities response.
> 
> My questions are: 1. Could it be renamed to something more suitable like
> GetCapabilitiesExtended ?
> 
> 2. Would it be acceptable to write some new request which will really
> return all possible project configurations ? Would you accept such patch ?
> If yes, can we make some proposal of request name and it's content ?
> 
> 
> PS: GIS.lab WebGIS application [1] is automatically detecting content and 
> configuration of QGIS project using GetCapabilities request and creates
> web application based on these values. Thus, no configuration is needed to
> create web client for any QGIS project. We would be happy to extend it's
> features, if we would be able to load more informations from such request.
> 
> 
> 1 -
> https://github.com/imincik/gis-lab/wiki/Quick-Start#wiki-gislab-project
> 
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