[QGIS-Developer] QGIS server and metadata

[Paolo Cavallini]

Thanks Ale for the explanation. Indeed, a suboptimal situation.
Perhaps worth an ad hoc crowdfunding.
Cheers.

Il 31/10/19 16:40, Alessandro Pasotti ha scritto:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 4:28 PM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
>     apparently our server does not expose the metadata stored in the project
>     and layer properties:
>     * is this true?
> 
> 
> There is a metadata section in the server configuration (Service
> Capabilities) of the project properties, modeled on WMS/WFS metadata,
> they are exposed. The sad thing is that when the new metadata framework
> was developed it was not connected with the existing server metadata, so
> we currently have two separate APIs for metadata, the old very limited
> one for the server and the new one. On the other hand, the old existing
> API is exactly what was required by WMS/WFS.
>  
> 
>     * is there any reason for this, besides the usual lack of resources to
>     implement it?
> 
> 
> Not that I'm aware of.
>  
> 
>     * anyone has estimates or plans to implement it?
> 
> 
> Not that I'm aware of.
> 
> I though about it for WFS3 but I couldn't find the time/resources to do
> anything (mainly because of missing API in the server), for now I've
> just implemented what was available in the server's WFS code.
> 
>  
> 
>     Moreover, I wonder how users are managing their metadata from QGIS, now
>     that several plugins that helped compiling them are not available for
>     current versions. Any feedback will be appreciated.
>     Cheers.
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