+1 Some additional discussion follows...
On 10 August 2015 at 15:59, Torben Barsballe <[email protected]> wrote: > Jody - It should be fairly easy to get importer to recognize style files: > simply iterate through StyleHandlers to get the supported > formats/extensions, and see if there are any matching files in the import. > Such a change would be entirely distinct from the style generator. > Right - you are correct StyleHandler includes the file extension :) Given that this does involve an API change to StyleHandler in gs-main, I > have created a GSIP here: > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-131 > > I am also considering some other related improvements that may be usefull: > > - Allow importer to generate files of any format. > - Allow style UI to generate styles. > - Expose rest endpoint for generating styles. > > Your proposal already indicated "Add a new Generate from template style section to the New/Edit Style page, with a drop-down menu to select a template and a link to generate the style.". Is this different from "Allow style UI to generate styles" above? -- Jody > Torben > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> No problems, but perhaps a related request for importer / style >> generation. >> >> uDig ships sample data with a sld sidecar file next to each shape file. I >> would really like it if importer could recognize sld or css sidecar files. >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:18 AM Andrea Aime < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Torben Barsballe < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> The gs-importer extension generates default SLD styles for imported >>>> layers. >>>> >>>> I would like to extend this functionality to support style generation >>>> for arbitrary formats. >>>> This would involve: >>>> 1. Migrating org.geoserver.importer.StyleGenerator to the gs-main >>>> catalog package >>>> 2. Adding a generate() method to org.geoserver.catalog.StyleHandler, >>>> using StyleGenerator to generates a format-specific style based on a >>>> template. >>>> >>>> This change would allow us to define default templates for CSS styles >>>> (and other extended formats) upon import. Since CSS has a rather different >>>> stucture than SLD, this would provide a better default style than >>>> generating SLD and immediately converting to CSS in cases where CSS was >>>> used (Importer would still default to generating SLD). >>>> >>>> This functionality might also be usefull when creating new styles in >>>> the geoserver styles page - upon creating a new style, a default template >>>> for that format could be loaded. >>>> >>>> Given that this involves an API change to gs-main, I intend to get this >>>> in before the Aug 18 code freeze. >>>> >>>> Does anyone have any concerns or objections to this change? >>>> >>> >>> Not me, looking forward to see the pull request :-) >>> >>> Cheers >>> Andrea >>> >>> >>> -- >>> == >>> GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit >>> http://goo.gl/it488V for more information. >>> == >>> >>> Ing. 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