[ZOO-Discuss] ZOO Web Client ideas

[jachym.cepicky at gmail.com]

Hi,
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:14:14PM +0100, Gérald Fenoy wrote:
> Hi Jachym,
> could I know if your WPS Client is able to produce dynamically HTML
> Forms (which could become realy complexe) and activate/add the
> appropriate tool to feed the process inputs ?
> 
> Did you already tried something like this ?

yes

pywps/trunk/doc/examples/clients/wps-WPS.html (possible broken, but the
idea is there)

> 
> Maybe we could think it's a hard task to produce dynamicaly forms
> and activated the appropriate tool (to produce/select a geometry for
> instance) this way, but IMO the more generic the Client Side is
> better it is.
> 
> I know that the hardest part is for selecting / producing tool
> selection. But why can't we already think of some basic examples of
> automaticaly selected select/add/edit tool and then when the
> "process-feeder" Class is instantiated we can pass it what behavior
> we want to activate.

impossible, the server could define metadata to each process
input/output and the client could generate the proriate tool for it.

I was proposing this many times in various mailing lists, 

jachym


> 
> A Behavior could be a JS function which activate for the user the
> appropriate tool for building his own new geometry, the behavior
> could be as simple as the selectFeature used in the demo page. Then
> when the web site developer code his page he only have to decide
> which tool to activate (or to add if the tool is specific to this
> process).
> 
> Maybe we can even ask the user when he wants to run a process :
> "Please user, which tool do you wants to use to feed the first
> Geometry ?". This way, the user is free to make his own choice and
> we let the web client developer far from that kind of
> consideration...
> 
> Nevertheless, I want to say that if we can get something similar to
> MacOS X Automator on the web, which sounds something similar to the
> ZOO Logic idea, to create processes it could be great.
> Just a note to tell that in Automator, they produce the forms in a
> dynamic way using something similar to the result of
> DescribeProcess.
> 
> I invite everybody to test Automator  and think about the same thing
> in a web interface. Is that an impossible task to put something
> similar on the web ? IMO no :)
> 
> Let me know what do you think Members.
> 
> Hope to hear from you,
> 
> Le 13 nov. 2009 à 13:21, Jachym Cepicky a écrit :
> 
> >hi, again,
> >
> >On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:33:35AM +0100, rldhont wrote:
> >>Eric Lemoine a écrit :
> >>>On Friday, November 13, 2009, rldhont <rldhont at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Hi All,
> >>>>
> >>>>I think DescribeProcess could be use to create object to control
> >>>>mandatory parameters, datatypes and mimetypes. It will be
> >>>>usefull, isn't
> >>>>it ?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>sorry I don't get what you mean. Could you elaborate a bit please?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>In a describe process, we could find parameter's name, parameter's
> >>mandatory, parameter's datatype or mimetype.
> >>Based on a describeProcess, it's possible to construct a JavaScript
> >>Object which could validate a process request. I think
> >>DescribeProcess
> >>must be used to do this.
> >
> >yes, this is all solved in the WPS.js comming with PyWPS. But I would
> >like to, if somebody would help with it's development
> >
> >Jachym
> >
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> 
> 
> 

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