Sounds good, IMHO the alternateTitles/Abstract properties should be
properties of LayerInfo, not ResourceInfo. They're clearly publication
related, not attached to the resource.

2c.-
Gabriel

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 14:32, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm looking into ways for internationalizing layer titles and abstracts.
> Right now title and abstract are String
> objects, appear as flat properties in the REST API and in configuration
> storage, and have lots of call
> points in the code (74 for title, 49 for abstract, including both Layer
> and Resource property exposure).
>
> It would be tempting to turn them into InternationalizedString (or an
> analogous class), but the API breakage
> would be significant, and would likely prevent a backport (something that
> might be a deal breaker funding wise).
> REST wise it would also make existing clients fail, if they stumble into
> an internationalized version of title and abstract
> (which I supposed would show up inside the same tags, nested <value
> lang="xy">title in lang</value> elements).
>
> I was wondering about doing something that would be more transparent to
> users. How about a:
>
>    - defaultLang property, indicating the language for the existing title
>    and abstract
>    - alternateTitles, a InternationalizedString
>    - alternateAbstract, a InternationalizedString
>
> This way they'd be new fields, could have defaults, and existing
> applications that are not aware of them can blissfully
> ignore them most of the time.
>
> The GUI would probably have a checkbox to enable internationalization, and
> in that case, it would show a table based
> editor with languages and values.
>
> How does this sound?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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