Which projects? Are there other places in the GeoServer code base that
should be refactored to use the new API?
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David Winslow
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>wrote:
> +1. I have actually needed this functionality on other projects and had to
> roll out a method to do exactly this.
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:36 PM, David Winslow <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking into some REST API improvements and I see there are a few
>> places where unique names should be autogenerated - in the data upload
>> handling we create a new layer and need to ensure it doesn't have a name
>> clash with other layers in the same workspace; I'd also like to have an
>> option for the data upload to generate a new style, which is also subject
>> to naming conflicts. I was looking at the code in DataStoreFileResource
>> and I see that it just tries all the possible suffixes from 1 to 10 and
>> gives up if that doesn't work (see line 393 and on for the details.) Might
>> be nice for it to try a bit harder (maybe fetch all layers with the
>> requested name as a prefix and do something smart with the results?)
>>
>> It also seems like this would be a useful thing to abstract out - I'm
>> thinking of adding a method like
>>
>> class CatalogBuilder {
>> public String uniqueName(WorkspaceInfo workspace, String requestedName,
>> Class<? extends ResourceInfo> resourceType)
>> }
>>
>> which would handle that logic in a more centralized location. Any
>> thoughts?
>>
>> This is relevant to at least these tickets:
>> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-2635
>> https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-5057
>>
>> --
>> David Winslow
>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
>>
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> Justin Deoliveira
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
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