Re: [Geoserver-users] Best way to implement WFS response that only returns the bbox of the result

[Justin D. <jde...@op...>]

> 
> Hmm... you are assuming all formats are actually able to return a
> bbox information. Not sure if json does, csv and excel most definitely
> won't. So you'd end up with a new resultType that works only with a
> specific output format (gml), and in order to get it working, you'd have
> to modify core code instead of adding a new peripheral change.
> Kinda feels like using a cannon to hit a small bird ;-)
Well I would just assume that geojson supports some notion of a bounding 
box but I could be wrong. For other formats in which there are no 
standard representing spatial information (csv, excel) a bounding 
representation could be mocked up. A single row with 5 columns sort of 
thing.
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea


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Justin Deoliveira
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