No, Scala makes it easy to mess with XML templates (eg:
https://github.com/dwins/icon-service/blob/master/src/main/scala/KMLService.scala#L46-L51)
but it's not a good fit for GeoServer core.
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Andrea Aime
<andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Chris Holmes <chol...@opengeo.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> This approach makes a lot of sense. Indeed we already have a
>> mode=download I think for KML, but might make sense to just return KMZ with
>> the embedded icons for that. Or to just not offer it and document that KMZ
>> is the download format. In GeoNode we already do have the distinction,
>> between 'view in google earth' and 'download kml'.
>>
>>
>>> I've spent a little time trying out some ideas outside of GeoServer:
>>> https://github.com/dwins/icon-service (I'l see if I can stand up a demo
>>> later.) The approach that I've been taking is to define the icon service
>>> as operating on styles alone (not addressing individual rules), and the
>>> client making the request includes feature attributes as needed. So an
>>> icon url might look like:
>>>
>>> http://localhost:9090/st/poi_dynamic?cat=1
>>>
>>> If the style references a property named 'cat.' Then I just create a
>>> feature with a point geometry at (0,0) and the attributes from the query
>>> string, remove Symbolizers other than PointSymbolizer from the style, and
>>> render it in a bbox of [-1:1,-1:1].
>>>
>>
> I see, makes sense. Of course, you're not going to bring a Scala
> dependency into GeoServer core, are you?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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