[QGIS-Developer] [server] Status and Roadmap

[Régis Haubourg]

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>
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>  * One blocker for WFS was the performance of spatial filter, in 2.x, they
> were not forwarded to the database when possible, and implied reading the
> whole layer in memory before doing the spatial query on the QGIS side.
> Anyone knows if it's still the case?
>
>
> No changes here. You just have to specify a QGIS2.ini or QGIS3.ini to
> speficy this.
> René-Luc,
>

I probably missed something. Are you refering to the taking advantage of
the setting "Evaluate expressions on QGIS side when possible" ?


> Good points. OGC certification is certainly important and would help us
> market QGIS server to potential users. On the other hand - for me
> personally - improving performance to bring it at least back to the same
> level like version 2 (if not better) is of much higher priority.
>
> Thanks for having a look at how certification may work.
>
> Let's talk about it in Madeira.
>
Yep, I agree on the priorities too, we are in an estimating stage for
Orange. I bet the thread anbout performance can push this one upper on the
todo list :)
Let's sprint that in Madeira.

Cheers
Régis


2018-02-08 16:07 GMT+01:00 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>:

> Hi Régis,
>
> Good points. OGC certification is certainly important and would help us
> market QGIS server to potential users. On the other hand - for me
> personally - improving performance to bring it at least back to the same
> level like version 2 (if not better) is of much higher priority.
>
> Thanks for having a look at how certification may work.
>
> Let's talk about it in Madeira.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2018-02-08 11:25, Régis Haubourg wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> As you know, QGIS server has been fully refactored for QGIS 3.
>
> Now some big enterprises are starting to rely on it in production
> environment and would like to consolidate again QGIS server.
>
> I have some informations and questions :
>
>
> # OGC certification
>
> I got in touch with the OGC certification team, in the aim of getting
> official certification, since we pass all WMS 1.3.0 tests.
> If we seek a reference implementation status on behalf of OSGEO and
> QGIS.org, there should be no fees, that's great news.
> The process must be renewed every year.
> We started the online testing process here: http://cite.opengeospatial.
> org/teamengine. It's failing currently, probably because of IP
> redirections we need to fix in our reference server (the one used by the
> continuous integration system)
>
> We are asked to start evaluating WFS conformity too, but that should be a
> bit painful since there is no API in TeamEngine to make continuous
> integration, and online platform is not responding. So I'm not confident
> we'll have quick results here.
>
> If everything goes well, I think QGIS can be certified soon! I think this
> will be very interesting to advertise in the doc and website.
>
> The OGC team seems really happy to see QGIS getting in the certification
> loop, and suggest we also try to certify QGIS as a client. If anyone has
> worked in that area, that would be nice to join efforts.
>
>
> # Performance
>
>  * We are still interested in having performance measure reference and
> ideally have performance driven development with a continuous integration
> system. Yves, is there anything new on your side?
>
>  * One blocker for WFS was the performance of spatial filter, in 2.x, they
> were not forwarded to the database when possible, and implied reading the
> whole layer in memory before doing the spatial query on the QGIS side.
> Anyone knows if it's still the case?
>
>
>
> all the best
> Régis
>
>
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