Gabriel Roldan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> long time ago we talked about the store edit pages to be extensible, and 
> the default ones being a fall back for stores that does not provide 
> their own configuration page.
> Well, most of them doesn't really need a custom config page, but I'm 
> running into the need to do so for ArcSDE.
> 
> Reason being that it is really weird for the ArcSDE raster configuration 
> to require a URL containing the user and password information. Moreover, 
> it would be good to being able of setting up the connection info once 
> and have all the available rasters in the databse to show up as resources.
> 
> So this is a two-folded issue. By one side I'm wondering how an 
> extension point for store edit pages would be. I envision something 
> similar to CatalogIconFactory.getStoreIcon. That is, DataStorePanelInfo 
> is already being used as extension point for custom icons. We can extend 
> it to also serve as the extension point to get the store's edit form? 
> Does that sound like a good plan or someone with more wicket experience 
> recommends otherwise?

I don't see why not. From what I can see none of the bean instances of 
DataStoreInfoPanel define a componentClass... which means I guess they 
are only used for icons. So I think it makes sense to have the 
componentClass be the form or the page which is the customized ui.

The componentClass may need to be narrowed to a specific abstract 
class... since you will need to get a map of connection parameters from 
the page?

Be interested to hear what Andrea thinks, since he designed the class.
> 
> The other side of the fence is related to overcoming the current 
> limitation of a CoverageStore serving one and only one Coverage. I know 
> this is due to the current geotools coverage API being designed for 
> single files and hence doesn't provide for relating more than one 
> coverage to a coverage store. The new API being worked out by Simone 
> will solve this. In the mean time, for the database holding lots of 
> rasters case, I would like to see how I could achieve that. That is, 
> configuring a single CoverageStore that relates to more than one 
> coverage. But I'm not getting anywhere, may be this is just not 
> possible, since it looks like ResourcePool and Catalog irreversibly ties 
> a CoverageStoreInfo to a single CoverageInfo? Anyway, any clue on if and 
> how we could circumvent that would be highly appreciated.
> 
Yeah... this is going to be a hard assumption to break, and will take 
some work updating the various parts of geoserver that make that 
assumption. I would say we probably want to wait for the new coverage 
api to land before making any fast moves. But hopefully Simone can speak 
more to that point.

> Cheers,
> Gabriel
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