It makes no sense to use a wmts service with variable parameters as the
whole point of tiling is to allow you to cache the response. If everyone
makes a different request each time there is no point in caching the tiles.

Ian

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 17:17 mlebihan <mlebiha...@gmail.com wrote:

> My problem is that the url parameters send by the browser in viewparams and
> that are automatically split by geoserver in WMS mode and given to its SQL
> views that way : SELECT * FROM TABLE where a= ... AND b = ...
> (and may change each time the user do a call to that layer through his web
> browser. Example : cityCode and year who would varying each call),
>
> aren't taken into account when the a WMTS service is targeted instead.
>
> What troubles me is that if the way of sending parameters is well
> documented, and it should not have been an easy thing to develop for the
> geoserver team, the way for doing so for a WMTS layer should be known by
> someone.
>
> I'm searching the official way to do so. I am not alone over the Internet
> who have met that problem. It would be strange if I was discovering it in
> the end of 2018, have to do experiments and offer a solution that would
> surely not convince my development team. They wouln't allow my code to go
> in
> production if I attempt to use an undocumented practice.
>
> I am not the one who can discovery it now. I must rely on official
> knowledge
> about linking parameters send in WMTS mode and SQL requests in geoserver.
>
> Maybe, if nothing is known, I will open an improvment request, but I don't
> have the right (due to our quality checkings here) to attempt an
> undocumented trick never experienced by anyone. Because my quality service
> would reply to me : "/How many days will it works ?/", "/Where have you
> read
> about this practice ?/". If I reply : /"I have hacked it, but saw noone do
> the same before/", my commit will be rejected for sure.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
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