guys, I'm more than willing to try and provide my view from the past 
experience with the overrides and all but I guess I'm quite loosing the 
point of the discussion, sorry.

Ben can you rephrase what the actual problem is with the bindings please?


thanks

Gabriel
Justin Deoliveira wrote:
> Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>   
>> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>>     
>>> Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>>> Hmmm... I don't see it this way. I mean... every in geoserver there is 
>>> now the decision, if simple feature so this, if complex feature do 
>>> that. I don't see why it cant be the same for GML encoding. If simple 
>>> feature use the regular WFSConfiguration, if complex use the complex 
>>> one. They will share mostly the bindings... except for 
>>> AbstractFeatureTypeBinding, etc...
>>>       
>> How can you serve then both simple and complex from a single GeoServer 
>> instance? I do not think that the dependency injection container is 
>> smart enough to decide which WFSConfiguration to use (it creates the 
>> WFSConfiguration instance). I propose that we (that is, I) fix all the 
>> configurations so they handle complex. There is no performance overhead.
>>
>> In my view, there should be no simple features: they are just a profile 
>> of full features and behaviour should be data-driven. I can see that the 
>> "simple features" pattern is very useful for ease of configuration, but 
>> I am pretty sure that there are no significant performance losses in 
>> being generic and treating them the same as other features.
>>     
> Ok I am sort of losing you. I mean, won't the simple case report itself 
> as such by being an instance of DataStore? rather than just a DataAccess?
>
> I don't see it as such an overhead to have a separate configuration... i 
> mean that was what the parser/encoder was designed for: to be flexible 
> enough to plug-in specific bindings for a specific purpose.
>
> I *do realize* that your view is that this is not a specific use but a 
> general one. And I respect that that is the view of anyone who is 
> working with application schemas. But you should respect that to most 
> current geoserver users this represents a "new feature" and not a 
> "current defect". So I hope you can see why i am hesitant to make this 
> case the norm.
>
> I am not opposed to a unified code path, but i would to know exactly 
> what the complex one looks like first. It seems like a logical and 
> smooth integration path to keep them seperated for now. It is just an if 
> statement and a few extra classes.
>
> -Justin
>   
>>>> What is the base type of a complexType that extends nothing? 
>>>> XS.COMPLEXTYPE? For example:
>>>>
>>>>         <complexType name="GeologicFeaturePropertyType">
>>>>           <sequence minOccurs="0">
>>>>                <element ref="gsml:GeologicFeature"/>
>>>>            </sequence>
>>>>            <attributeGroup ref="gml:AssociationAttributeGroup"/>
>>>>        </complexType>
>>>>         
>>> All types extend from xs:anyType.
>>>       
>>>> It seems Encoder ignores the content of this at the moment, perhaps 
>>>> because of the ref to an abstract type. Is this an Encoder bug or a 
>>>> missing binding?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Well... the only binding that would engage in this case would be 
>>> XSAnyTypeBInding. And yeah, it does not implement any of the 
>>> getProperty() methods, so essentially ignored.
>>>       
>> Overriding XSAnyTypeBinding allowed me to encode these types. I have a 
>> few other smallish encoding problems. As soon as I have fixed these, 
>> everything is working. I will contact you then to discuss how we should 
>> integrate these into the code base (pull up into core, or the separate 
>> configuration you propose). I will also set up the CITE tests, as you 
>> requested.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>     
>
>
>   


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