Thanks, Andrea, and don't worry about the example.  I updated the docs, and 
ported to trunk.

Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org


On 2/2/2011 11:21 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Mike Pumphrey<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>  Thanks for the notes, Andrea, this is super helpful.  Follow-ups, below.
>>
>>>  all keys are case insenstive, all values are case sensitive.
>>
>>  Okay, but I do see that service=WPS works as well as service=wps.  Just 
>> GeoServer being nice, though, I guess.
>
> Yep, that's my understanding as well.
>
>>>  - the buffer in the example returns a square... correct answer given the 
>>> params, but a little
>>>      outside what one would expect from a buffer operation
>>
>>  I was looking for an example that would be simple to understand from just 
>> looking at the coordinates.  If I had created a circle (or polygon 
>> equivalent), it might be more real world, but the numbers might not be so 
>> understandable.  But I could change the example, though, if you thought it 
>> valuable.  It was just the first process I came up with.
>
> Yeah, a circle would be made of a lot of coordinates. No biggie.
>
>>  Also, found it interesting that as is, the values were like -10.00000000067 
>> instead of -10.0.  :)
>>
>>>  - in the geoserver processes paragraph you say "These functions have the 
>>> added bonus
>>>      of being able to operate on existing layers in GeoServer, and can even 
>>> write the output
>>>      to a new GeoServer layer".
>>>      Actually any process can work against existing GS layers, it just
>>  ...
>>
>>  Okay.  How should I categorize the differences between the gs: and the JTS: 
>> processes?  (Or is there no important distinction?)  I saw that the request 
>> builder had an extra entry for VECTOR_LAYER on the gs: processes, which is 
>> why I made the note.
>
> JTS processes are made to expose jts capabilities and work on single 
> geomtries.
> GS processes... are all over the place, they do pretty much everything now.
> There is a number of them that is specific to GS though, such as gs:Import
>
> VECTOR_LAYER is something every process consuming feature collection will
> have.
>
>>
>>>  - the trick GS uses to get data off the internal WFS/WCS is to use a 
>>> special URL
>>>      for the wfs/wcs server, http://geoserver/wfs and
>>>  http://geoserver/wcs (if memory
>>>      serves me right) and that part is just a GS convention, it's not
>>>  anything that is
>>>      part of the standard
>>
>>  Okay, I'll make a note of that.
>>
>>>  - that said GS can feed off any remote WFS/WCS just fine (provided the 
>>> chosen
>>>      output format can be parsed by GS), and in general, but any remote call
>>>      whatsoever that returns something parseable (it might be a php
>>>  script returning GML
>>>      for example)
>>
>>  I'm pretty sure I follow this, but if an example lived somewhere it would 
>> be great to see it.
>
> Don't have stuff handy now (I'm stuck in bed with fever and the
> notebook does not
> have everything I need in working order) I'll try to look up more
> examples when I get
> back on my feet
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>

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