[Qgis-developer] FOSS4G code sprint idea: improving SLD export and GeoServer compatibility

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 28-06-16 19:42, Andrea Aime wrote:
> Hi,
> at FOSS4G Bonn we'll have a bunch of QGis and GeoServer developers
> participating at the code sprint, I would like to leverage the
> co-precence and propose a "cross-project"
> work idea, that is, to improve the chance that a style exported from
> QGis can be
> successfully imported and rendered in GeoServer.
> 
> On one side, I have had reports from GeoServer users showing documents
> that were not valid XML (un-balanced tags) 
> or not schema compliant, like CSSProperty values containing a Filter
> instead of an Expression... I don't know
> if these issues are still present in the latest version of QGis, as you
> imagine users tend to use a large variety of software versions,
> some of which pretty old, but I see some open ticket in the QGis tracker
> regarding the SLD export, so there might
> be some work to do there.
> 
> On the other side, GeoServer has a preference for SLD 1.0, and SE 1.1
> support definitely needs improvement, 
> at the same time and it could learn to use some of the QGis own extensions.
> For example, the other day I've seen on stackexchange a export with a
> "diamond" WellKnownName that is not part
> of SE, but which would be trivial to add support for in GeoServer.
> 
> There are also other functionalities, like compositing, that are present
> in both projects, but not in SE, having a way to export
> them would also be good.
> 
> So I'd like to see if there is any QGis developer that would like to
> work side by side
> with me to bring the two projects a little bit closer in this respect. 
> I'll be at the code sprint after the conference, Saturday and Sunday.
> Having someone contributing projects with some complex symbology to test
> against would
> also be a great way to keep the exercise interesting.
> 
> Anyone interested? :-)

o/

Probably also Luigi and others working on Geoserver-plugin will be
interested.

Though not a cpp dev, I'll do what I can, OR try to find people who can
help from our community...

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde