Re: [Geotools-devel] Trunk branch or direct modifications

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

Andrea Aime wrote:
> Renderer is not involved at all, only the geoserver kml and rss 
> generator will be (the extension is about adding stuff that's
> relevant to KML). So I will need to touch at least text symbolizer
> implementation and the xml parser (but not the encoder).
>
> Both changes should be pretty transparent. I guess I'll have to
> roll a KMLTextSymbolizer interface as well with three extra
> properties, title, abstract and List<OtherText> where OtherText
> is made of (label, xpath) (it can be used to create stuff located
> at a certain xpath in the output, for example you can use it
> to specify extrusion or time in a kml output).
>
> Ah, another thing we want to experiment is a cross between
> SLD and FreeMarker, in particular, the ability to make a
> Label be defined by a FreeMarker template. Since this will be
> done by adding a FilterFunction, I can start by adding it
> on the GeoServer side and eventually bring it back
> into its own module when done if anyone is interested in
> _very_ fancy labelling (the mixed content label support
> we added from a user patch already allows quite a bit of latitude)
Cool; so as module maintainer of style stuff I am fine with you 
extending TextSymbolizerImpl; and if you *really* like your change
you can place it in TextSymbolizer2 interface (and document it in the 
user guide) when you think it is a success.

Jody