On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hmmm, tricky problem.
>
> So I understand your proposal you are saying that we continue to store
> coverage names internally with a QName, but whenever we output a name we do
> it by replacing ":" with "_". And symmetrically whenever parsing a name
> handle the replacement as well?
>

Yes, well, internally there is no other way, we have workspace prefix and
plain name, so there is no alternative right?
Discussing with Emanuele offline he was suggesting to use something less
obvious as the escape, like
".." (horizontal colon :-p) or "__" (double underscore) to reduce to a
minimum the likeliness of a conflict.


>
> A couple of ideas.
>
> 1. For wcs 2.0 we try to apply the name mangling up front in the request
> readers/parsers. Basically by taking the name with underscores and like you
> mention looking for the longest workspace prefix match.
>

Yes, that's the idea.


>
> 2. We do push on the idea that for wcs 2.0 folks should use virtual
> service endpoints. Obviously this will be limiting so the caveat would be
> that if you don't have unique local names server wide you will run into
> problems.
>

Eh, right.
I guess I'll also send a complaint to OGC using the change request system,
but doubt it will have any effect in the short term.

Cheers
Andrea


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