[QGIS-Developer] OGC API Features provider

[Luigi Pirelli]

should have relation with this?
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/144

Luigi Pirelli

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On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 20:52, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just a quick note to mention, to avoid any potential duplication of work
> if
> someone else is about to do that, that in the coming weeks I'll work on
> adding
> support for "OGC API - Features" (previously known as WFS3) on the client
> side, now that it is about to be finalized to its 1.0 version.
>
> My initial thought would tend towards to try to add it into the existing
> WFS
> provider. From a UI perspective, I've got some feedback that it would
> probably
> be best to access it through the existing WFS entry to avoid cluttering
> the UI
> with a new provider.
> On the code level, the choice between having a dedicated provider or
> adding
> functionnality in the existing WFS one is not so obvious. Technologically,
> there is little in common between traditional WFS ( XML & GML based, KVP
> based
> requests ), and OAPI-F (my own acronym for OGC API - Features) (JSON &
> GeoJSON
> based, with a linking approach). But the WFS provider has something which
> is
> quite useful for the OAPI-F context, which is the local Spatialite-based
> cache
> & the background download capability. Extracting that from the WFS
> provider
> and be generic enough for multiple providers could be quite involved.
>
> Opinions about above directions welcome.
>
> Even
>
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