Hi all, as you know, the WPS download module is now a supported extension. The module provides a good asynchronous animation building facility, which can be called in a asynchronous way and generates MP4 movies.
Maybe not many know that WMS has an "animator", which can build animated gifs: https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/tutorials/animreflector.html It does not compare very well to the WPS download: 1. Can only do synchronous requests 2. It's memory bound 3. Normally limited to URL size (I guess one could do a form POST though, haven't tried) 4. Can only build animated GIFs (hence, relatively low compression) 5. Can only work with local GeoServer layers (WPS download can do on the fly cascade as well) To be fair, it has one advantage over the WPS download, in that it can animate over any WMS request parameter, like changing the bbox, or a view param, while WPS download only over time. I don't think anyone is seriously using it (did you know it was there in the first place?), and given its runtime limits and memory consumption, I'd suggest to just drop it. Only on the dev branch, and we can include a warning in the 2.19.0 release announcement for eventual users to switch to the WPS download. Opinions?? Cheers Andrea *: well, almost superceded! == GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit http://goo.gl/it488V for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via di Montramito 3/A 55054 Massarosa (LU) phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it ------------------------------------------------------- *Con riferimento alla normativa sul trattamento dei dati personali (Reg. UE 2016/679 - Regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati “GDPR”), si precisa che ogni circostanza inerente alla presente email (il suo contenuto, gli eventuali allegati, etc.) è un dato la cui conoscenza è riservata al/i solo/i destinatario/i indicati dallo scrivente. Se il messaggio Le è giunto per errore, è tenuta/o a cancellarlo, ogni altra operazione è illecita. Le sarei comunque grato se potesse darmene notizia. This email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. We remind that - as provided by European Regulation 2016/679 “GDPR” - copying, dissemination or use of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail.*
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