Re: [udig-devel] general purpose client to WFS 1.1

["Jens Stutte" <stutte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,

I found this mail with regard to the WFS 1.1 question, are there any updates to the stated?

Best regards,

Jens

On 10 Oct 2006 at 1:30, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Upendra wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >   I am new to UDIG. I want to use udig with WFS. I was able to use it 
> > with WFS 1.0, but not with WFS 1.1. My question:- Is it even possible 
> > to develop general purpose client for any WFS 1.1?
> Of course. We did one for the OWS-3 project that you can take a look at, 
> we did not roll it out into the codebase as we only managed to parse 
> points as far as geometry went. But now geotools has picked up the work 
> so we could do better - just need time / money / volunteers (preferably 
> all three)
> > What if my WFS schema is very complicated?
> This is why we had to develop our own parser (our WFS 1.0 support is 
> done with the generation 3 geotools parser, the WFS 1.1 mentioned above 
> using generation 4).  The feature model used has also been a blocker, 
> but that has gotten some research attention since this time last year, 
> now we need some development time to bring it home. Currently the ground 
> work will be ready to do this for next year, but we make work on funding 
> for that :-)
> 
> I got a geotools steering document to present to their project 
> management committee about that.
> > In case of WFS 1.0 schemas are usually very simple, one just has to 
> > look at a geometry field in the schema and use it for rendering. What 
> > if there are multiple geometry fields or if there is topological 
> > complex instead of a geometry field? Is it possible to create a 
> > general purpose client without knowing the WFS application schema 
> > beforehand? Any answers will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
> Sure, and we do this. So far we have been limited by data sources 
> presenting interesting content (so our current tools have not been 
> tested with more then one geometry field per feature etc...).
> 
> Um I have lots of links to this work ... what are you interested in? 
> Anything beyond it can be done?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jody
> 
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