On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Gabriel Roldan <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hey, just a question.
>>
>> What would be the impact to geoserver if a datastore does not respect the
>> convention of providing feature ids as <simple type name>.<backend
>> identifier>
>>
>
> The issue would just be that featureid in WFS GET has a lower chance to
> work, since it becomes higher the probability to have a conflict, same id,
> different store.
> That said, even with the current setup it's not really impossible to have
> a conflict, if you have two stores in different workspaces producing the
> same ids.
>
right, thanks for confirming.
>
>
>> The feature id issue bothers me since a while now and would like to
>> gather opinions on whether it shouldn't be mandatory for geotools
>> datastores to prefix the feature ids that way. It looks to me like a WFS
>> think leaking down to the data access layer, in order for GeoServer to be
>> able of supplying unique ids at the service instance level, which in an
>> ideal world should be GeoServer's responsibility (like in GeoServer being
>> in charge of prefixing the workspace + type name to the geotools provided
>> feature id).
>>
>
> In a perfect world, yes, the GeoServerFeatureSource/Store should wrap the
> feature ids generated by the source so that we generate something like
> <ws>.<publishedName>.<nativeId>, and rewrite the incoming filters
> accordingly
>
>
cool, at least we're on the same page re what the proper way of doing so
would be in that perfect world. We might even have the motivation to chase
it in this regard one day. And yes, the gotcha would be having to rewrite
all incoming fid filters.
Thanks for the insights Andrea.
Gabriel
> Cheers
> Andrea
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