Re: AW: [Geoserver-devel] XML Schema Generation

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

Simon Räss wrote:

>>I have also wished to see the amount of configuration required be 
>>reduced, generating based on FeatureType is a wonderful idea.
>>I have tried to start a Catalog api in geotools2 that would hold the 
>>kind of information required. I have not managed to port
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>FeatureTypeInfo 
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>>over yet - but it is certaintly where I would start.
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>FeatureTypeInfo seems to be pretty specific to JDBCDataStore. Therefore
>it seems to make more sense to add it directly to FeatureType. Of
>course, I may be missing something. I'm pretty new to
>geoserver/geotools...
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Hmm I was thinking FeatureTypeInfo had the metadata url, and other 
"Catalog" information that GeoServer cannot get from FeatureType. There 
is a Catalog OGC Specification that may serve as a starting off.

Just having a look at things again...

I think I meant FeatureTypeConfig on the wms-branch. I have only been 
working on GeoServer for a couple of weeks and already things have 
changed names on me :-)

BasicConfig has:
-name
-title
-_abstract
-keywords
-fees
-accessConstraints
-maintainer
FeatureTypeConfig has:
-DataStoreConfig (called dataStore!)
-bbox
-latLongBBox
-SRS - I wonder if this should be a CoordinateReferenceSystem?)
-definitionQuery = Filter.NONE so everything
-schema (the GeoTools2 FeatureType)
-styles
-defaultStyle
-pathToSchemaFile (this is the content you are trying to generate?)
-prefix
-numDecimals

All of this information is data about the Schema (gt2 FeatureType) that 
GeoServer needs to work?
I did not see the metadata url I was expecting - is that one of the 
entries in the "schemaFile"?

I am under the impression that FeatureType (the gt2 class) was defined 
by the OGC Simple Feature Specification. I am not sure we can add more 
information to FeatureType.
I think the SchemaFile is part of the Catalog information that GeoServer 
provides, and has its own specification to follow.

I quickly get lost between all of the specifications. It would be nice 
if Geotools2/GeoServer made a note of the OGC specification they were 
using at the top of each file.

Jody