On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Andrea Aime
<andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Justin Deoliveira
> <jdeol...@opengeo.org>wrote:
>>
>> There are two sides indeed:
>>> a) add sorting support for all, regardless of the native support
>>> b) force natural sorting during paging when no other sorting is around
>>>
>>> a) seems to be nice in general, along with the lines that WFS hides
>>> whatever
>>> capabilities the actual underlying data storage has.
>>> b) is doable, but takes a toll on paging if the native store does not
>>> support
>>> natural sorting
>>>
>>> At the very least I'd like to support a), b) I don't really have an
>>> opinion on.
>>>
>>
>> Right... makes sense. I would say only doing (a) is fine for now and just
>> continue to do what we do now and just ignore the fact that there is no
>> sorting, and page regardless.
>>
>
> Cool, works for me.
>
>
>> Afaik there is not much to merge on trunk, besides that
>>> GeoServerFeatureCollection.
>>> If we go for just supporting a) I guess I could still
>>> use GeoServerFeatureCollection,
>>> just making sure it simply does skip and max, or roll a new
>>> SortinFeatureCollection
>>> that only does sorting and keep MaxFeatureCollection (which would have
>>> to be
>>> back-ported to 2.1.x).
>>>
>>> cool
>>
>
> Ah hem... which one is cooler? :-)
> Any preference between:
> * still use GeoServerFeatureCollection, just making sure it simply does
> skip and max
> (which would be forward ported to trunk and replace
> MaxFeatureCollection)
> * roll a new SortingFeatureCollection that only does sorting and keep
> MaxFeatureCollection (which would have to be back-ported to 2.1.x).
>
Oops, sorry :) ... no strong preference but if I had to choose I would go
with the second, seems a bit cleaner to keep them separate but like i said
no real opinion, if the implementation of the first turns out to be easier
i am all for that.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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