Andrea Aime wrote:
> Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:
>> Hi Andrea,
>>
>> I thought those would catch your eye ;). And my rationale was not to 
>> be irresponsible, i fully realize the repercussions. But... in this 
>> case (the RESTful case) the user is creating a new feature type. When 
>> the user creates the new feature type they have the option of 
>> specifying the bounding box and the computation only happens when they 
>> do not. So in this case it is really the user asking for what they get 
>> since they did not specify the bounding box. Now that happens in 
>> initFeatureType(FeatureTypeInfo)
>>
>> There is also a bounds computation buildFeatureSource(FeatureSource) 
>> which is also called by REST when a shapefile (or some other vector 
>> file) is uploaded. Now again the user has the ability to prevent this 
>> by requesting that no automatic configuration take place, and then 
>> they can manually specifying the bounding box (either native or lat 
>> lon) later.
>>
>> So in both cases the user has the choice and can avoid the bounds 
>> computation. Although I do admit in both cases it would be pretty easy 
>> for the computation to occur by default. In the first case I would not 
>> be against throwing an exception if they don't specify the bounding 
>> box... or making them explicitly set a parameter which allows us to 
>> compute it. The second case would be hard... it would more or less 
>> kill the "upload shapefile and go" use case.
> 
> Ok, nice to know it's possible to avoid "death by bbox computation"
> in the RESTful case. That still leaves me cold in the UI case thought,
> the UI code also needs to build FeatureTypeInfo/CoverageInfo from
> a FeatureSource to pre-fill some of the fields in the UI.
> 
> So... should I add a "computeBBOX" boolean flag to the methods that
> do build a FeatureTypeInfo or a CoverageInfo?
> And I'll also need to add an explicit method to compute the native
> bbox given a ResourceInfo (or two, one for feature types and one for
> coverages)
Sounds good to me, and if you want to make it not compute the bounding 
box by default i am fine with that. Just ping me when you commit the 
changes and I will update the RESTConfig module. Oh wait, not on trunk. 
I should probably port it to trunk sooner rather than later.
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 


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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.

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