[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] LIZMAP ERROR PRINT - HELP!

Vincent Picavet vincent.ml at oslandia.com
Wed Jun 11 01:56:39 PDT 2014


Hello,

Le mercredi 11 juin 2014 10:25:36, Jürgen E. Fischer a écrit :
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On Wed, 11. Jun 2014 at 08:39:11 +0200, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> > It is true that in some cases we need to improve to be more standards
> > compliant. This is a group effort. Everybody can contribute. Removing
> > GetPrint from GetCapabilities, or implementing in a standard compliant
> > way, would help. We could still have it listed in GetProjectSettings.
> 
> It's disputable if the current way is not compliant.
> 
> Changing that might break clients that query the capabilities for the
> presense of GetPrint if we'd applied a (less-disputable ;)) compliant
> prefix (ie. GetPrint to qgis:GetPrint).
> 
> Note that this would only apply to the name of the operation element in
> capabilities, the actual request wouldn't need to changed.
> 
> So it's unclear to me if there are actually any clients that would break.

I do not think a lot of clients are relying on getprint being in capabilities.

> At least some already use GetProjectSettings, others might just imply
> GetPrint without checking GetCapabilities - both groups wouldn't be
> affected.

Probably the vast majority of users.

> The clients that check capabilities would just need to look for
> qgis:GetPrint instead or alternatively of GetPrint - and that should just
> be a trivial change, when 2.4 is deployed.
> 
> Also there are probably not that many clients around that actually use
> GetPrint.

+1
Thanks for your reasonable, pragmatic and thoughtful contributions.

Vincent


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