Re: [Geoserver-users] A suggestion

[Chris H. <ch...@op...>]

This is definitely a great suggestion, and one we have been thinking 
about for awhile.
We recently implement a REST api, see 
http://docs.geoserver.org/1.7.x/user/extensions/rest/index.html

This should give clients like QGIS, UDIG and even ArcGIS plugins the 
ability to
configure GeoServer.  Most of the work now needs to be on the client end 
- they
need to be configured to take advantage of the remote configuration.

Note if you know what you need to do you can make scripts to 
automatically configure
GeoServer using the REST API.

If you have access to funding I am sure we can find someone who would 
implement it,
or we can help out if you or someone can help develop it.  But as an 
open source project
we have to wait for someone to have the will.

Thank you for the kind words, we're glad GeoServer is working out for 
you, and we do
hope to continue to improve.  Thanks for sharing your suggestion.

best regards,

Chris

Yang Zhaohui wrote:
> Hi dear sir,
>    I find it is a really trivial and boring thing to config a 
> featuretype and define a style for every layers(now it is from a postgis 
> table),especially there are several dozens of layers.Conversely,in ESRI 
> ArcGIS,there is a kind of *.mxd file,in which we can specify the layers 
> and config their styles.And then when it is need to published to Web, 
> the only thing user need to do is to point out the directory of the 
> *.mxd file,instead of configing a featuretype and defining a style for 
> every layers.However, what I mean is not represent the Project of 
> Geoserver is not successful,on the contrary the Geoserver is very good 
> as I love,only need to improve the user-friendliness. So I have a 
> suggestion which has not yet been mature that, define a project 
> config-file,which we can specify layers and edit styles in easy-to-use 
> desktop GIS software(QGIS,UDIG,etc),and this project config-file can be 
> directly added into Geoserver,because it is  a manual and duplicated 
> thing  to do this process in Geoserver.Wish my suggestion will sparkle 
> the inspiration  of the developer of Geoserver.And Wish Geoserver will 
> be better and better!
>                                                        Sincerely yours,
>                                                              Yang
> 
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