[QGIS-Developer] What to do about WFS test failures?

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi Even, thanks for pointing that, I missed that history.
I'll ask the dev's for the detailed improvements planned, I dont' have any
detail currently (sorry for that)
Régis

Le lun. 3 sept. 2018 à 21:29, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> a
écrit :

> Régis,
>
> Not that I'm against improvements, all the contrary, but just wanted to
> underline that the provider was seriously refactored already in 2.16.
> Clearly
> the lack of WFS-T support for 1.1 and 2.0 in the scope of those
> enhancements
> can be a source of confusion currently for users. What do you have in mind
> as
> refactoring exactly ?
>
> Even
>
> > Hi all,
> > I very much think that the WFS client is an really bad state, and is not
> > really reliable, especially in WFS-T context.
> > The good news is that we just have been funded to refactor it !
> > The work should start in september and land in 3.6. I will let our dev's
> > come here with more technical details about the goals. I hope we will
> also
> > be able to take benefit of this to this the OGC compliancy of the client
> > here.
> > Best regards,
> > Régis
> >
> > Le lun. 3 sept. 2018 à 11:36, Tom Chadwin <tom.chadwin at nnpa.org.uk> a
> >
> > écrit :
> > > I can't offer any helpful suggestions, but just to let you know I
> finally
> > > had
> > > to disable all my plugin WFS tests. I used to cope, by rerunning failed
> > > Travis runs, but by about three months ago, it seemed no longer usable
> -
> > > failure after failure.
> > >
> > > I was using a third-party WFS, and perhaps I could have got round this
> by
> > > adding a WFS provider to the test docker image, but in this plugin's
> case,
> > > I
> > > didn't think it worth the significant effort to do so. The WM(T)S tests
> > > also
> > > use third-party sources and seem stable, so perhaps this wasn't the
> > > underlying issue anyway.
> > >
> > > If an improvement or solution could be found, it would be great to
> > > reinstate
> > > these tests.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > >
> > >
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