On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Paolo Corti <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the point would be to have vrt and other ogr formats
> straightly available in GeoServer without converting data to
> shapefiles or whatever.
> Dear GeoServer developers, just for the sake of curiosity, is there
> any plans to integrate OGR in the GDAL plugin at some point?
>
A couple of years ago I wrote a working OGR data store in GeoTools:
https://github.com/geotools/geotools/tree/master/modules/unsupported/ogr
Unfortunately the module failed to gain any traction, there are a number of
difficulties:
* It's completely impossible to predict whether the module will compile and
pass unit
tests against a random system, since we don't know what version of OGR is
around
(too new? too old?), this prevented it so far from entering the official
build
* Since I wrote it, I had exactly zero use of it. As much as people rave
for OGR capabilities,
large production sites don't use the formats that OGR supports, and stick
to spatial databases
instead, meaning there is no commercial interest in it. In turns, this
means the module
maintainership cannot be done during working hours.
* Native libraries in generally are not welcomed in Java production sites,
because a small
glitch in them under sustained use that makes them segfault brings down
the entire
java process. It does not help that heavy users of OGR are short lived
programs
(cgi or fastcgi restarted every 1000 requests), desktop applications, and
in general,
programs that have no multithreading (now GDAL has a setup that allows to
keep
certain formats running in separate processes, which would address this,
I'd be happy
to add support for it if there is anybody interested in sponsoring the
work).
That said, I guess I could make an extra effort to make the module
available for nightly
downloads in the community section:
http://gridlock.opengeo.org/geoserver/2.3.x/community-latest/
Is there anyone that would be interested in having it? No promises it will
be maintained,
no promises it works at all (haven't used it in 2 years).
But the source code is there, if there is someone that wants to move from
chit-chat
to action (as in, try to maintain it), I'm ready to help get them started.
Cheers
Andrea
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