On 25 July 2011 11:58, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> a long long time ago, in a svn revision far away, Lisasoft contributed
> an aggregating WFS data store:
> http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/branches/2.4.x/modules/unsupported/aggregating-wfs/src/main/java/org/geotools/data/aggregating/

I must have missed that :-(

>
> Today I need something quite similar, yet, different enough that I'll
> have to reimplement
> it from scratch.
> I need an aggregating data store that:
> - can aggregate from any store, not just WFS (the use case is actually
> local database + various remote wfs)
> - still works on simple features only
> - has a target schema (the first one in list) and can aggregate the
> others with some
>  leeway on schema differences (ignore extra attributes, nullify
> missing ones, eventually
>  accept case differences in attribute names)
> - can tolerate some of the stores being unavailable
> - can get features in parallel from the sources and merge them in a
> single response (this one has still
>  the jury out, it might be done in a purely sequential way too)
> - is purely read only
> - assumes there are no feature duplicates around
> - the configuration would be programmatic, plus an eventual xml config
> file (likely xstream based for read/writes)
>
> The code would be based on content data store this time.
> Of course the code would be developed in unsupported and then
> eventually migrated to supported
> status.

Sounds like a great plan to me (+1 if you need one for this). I'll
keep an eye out for code (assuming I have some spare time while I'm
moving house, starting new job etc).

Ian

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