[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Desktop as WMS client - purpose of format "Feature"

[Andrea Peri]

Hi,
We use the feature option in getfeatureinfo in qgis to allow the users to
retrieve the geometry from a feature on the map.
This really useful rather than wfs because wfs is inefficient and we often
dont want allow the downloading of the featureset.
So we disable the wfs and suggest to the users to retrieve one single
geometry using the feature option in getfeatureinfo in qgis wns client.

Regards,
A.


Il gio 27 giu 2019, 14:41 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> ha scritto:

> Hi,
>
> Since 2-3 versions (I think) there is, next to html and text, now a third
> "format" in GetFeatureInfo with the name "Feature".
>
> I wonder why this new format was introduced? What is the idea and what are
> the advantages?
>
> I noticed that not all of the data types work well in this new format. For
> some (e.g. Postgis data types) data is shown in mode text and html, but
> nothing in "Feature". One such data type are "json" and "jsonb". The
> display either an empty string when a text widet is assigned or NULL when a
> List or Key/Value widget is assigned.
>
> Thanks for clarifying the purpose of the third format "Feature".
>
> Andreas
>
>
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