[QGIS-Developer] Make QGIS-Server more modular and specialized?

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 7:02 PM Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
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> Another scenario would be to have a specialized server only for GetPrint requests. Those are often quite resource intensive (because of higher dpi requests) and it would make sense, at a larger  installation - to have dedicated instances for GetPrint only.

This is a different story, because GetPrint is not a service by itself
but is part of a WMS request.

I don't think we want to have that granularity, but in case you need
it, a simple filter Python plugin is perfectly capable of
denying/allowing a request based on the incoming URL.

Cheers

>
> Andreas
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> On 2020-09-29 18:48, Andreas Neumann wrote:
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> Dear QGIS (Server) devs,
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> I wonder if it would be possible to make QGIS server more "modular" in a future version? I mean that at compile time you could decide which services should be enabled and which not? Example: if you are only interested in WMS, could you switch off all the other services?
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> Another usage scenario: a larger installation of QGIS server might want to separate server instances for WMS, WFS or other services and assign different resources to it.
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> Also, would it be possible to make QGIS Server a bit leaner/smaller/faster that way - or is the stuff the makes QGIS Server "fat" mainly the qt dependencies?
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> Thanks for the discussion,
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> Andreas
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