[QGIS-Developer] OGC API Features provider

Luigi Pirelli luipir at gmail.com
Mon Sep 23 13:24:58 PDT 2019


and this https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/10016

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On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 22:22, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> wrote:

> should have relation with this?
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/144
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> Luigi Pirelli
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> On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 20:52, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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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