[QGIS-Developer] QGIS server and metadata

[Nyall Dawson]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 02:42, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:

> IMO what is missing here is a bridge between the new metadata API in QGIS core and the "old" QGIS server metadata API.

It was always a deliberate choice to keep these two separate. The
thinking was that the metadata you use for your local projects and
layers isn't necessarily going to match what you want to publish and
advertise to external users. You might have sensitive information in
there, or just "internal only" details which you don't want/need to
publish.

I think all that's missing here is a button to auto-populate server
metadata by copying it from the project or layer metadata. It'd give a
quick way to initial populate the published metadata, which you could
then tweak as needed...

Nyall


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>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:47 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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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