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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi



> On 03 Sep 2018, at 22:54, Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd suggest based on Tom's post that the work should include some sort of reliable way of testing the WFS client (and of course full test coverage) - I don't know if GeoServer is Docker-happy these days
> 

Kartoza publishes geoserver images here:

https://hub.docker.com/r/kartoza/geoserver/tags/ <https://hub.docker.com/r/kartoza/geoserver/tags/>

https://github.com/kartoza/docker-geoserver <https://github.com/kartoza/docker-geoserver>

Regards

Tim


> , but the default install in a VM should be sufficient for the task (it comes with test layers) - although GeoServer doesn't support WFS-T for writing.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
> 
> On 03/09/2018 12:04, Régis Haubourg wrote:
>> 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 <mailto: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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