Justin Deoliveira wrote:
> Ok, we seem to be coming from this at different angles. My point is
> that a shapefile and a database is not a "Service", so why try to
> attach metadata to it, and why try to ask it questions which it cannot
> answer.
>
> imho this is the job of servers like GeoServer and MapServer to store
> and manage this inofmration, not the job of the format driver. And
> indeed, that is how i look at the DataStore class, as a format driver,
> nothing more.
Yeah I get it; thinking .... so with that use case in mind publisher,
keywords, description and title would vanish? Or at least be optional
(reserved for a subclass?)
... I am still stuck requiring icon and type (even though it causes
friction). It is tempting to think of icon and type as describing the
format more than the service; but in practice it did not work out for me.
SERVICE shapefile database wfs wms
title x x
keywords x x
description x x
publisher x x
type x x x x
source x x x x
icon x x x x
drm crap - -
RESOURCE shapefile database wfs wms
title x x
keywords x x
description x x
name x x
schema x x x x
icon x x x x
bounds x x x x
crs
wgs84bounds - - x x
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