Re: [Geoserver-devel] Coverage configuration in geoserver

[Saul F. <Sau...@st...>]

> Saul, I believe the ImageMosaic plugin will help in the case with
> multiple files described above (if I understand well what you are
> asking).

Right, you've got what I'm talking about.  And I understand what's 
currently in-place pretty well.  It's just unnecessarily limiting.

> In the above-mentioned plugin, the files are listed in a .shp file,
> acting as a "map" for the files on disk, sans the db connection
> params.

Right now I'm handling the database connection case with a "db" url, but 
that's a bit of a stretch, semantically. 
sde://username:password@server[:port]/dbname#tableName is ok, but what 
if the raster has an associated colormap and you need to flag the reader 
code to that somehow?  Or what if the raster table is a raster catalog, 
and you need to specify some default behavior (which order to overlay 
overlapping tiles in, for example)?

I'm just saying there are lots of options to pass to a coverage in order 
to instantiate it correctly, and perhaps an easier way to describe the 
available options both from a UI and programming perspective is with a 
Map of options to be passed to Format.getReader(Object source);

Format.getReader() takes the required input (any input, actually!)  It's 
just about getting Geoserver to store its coverage config that way.

--saul

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> Alex
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