On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 13:57, Daniele Romagnoli < daniele.romagn...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:
> Hi lists (sorry for cross-posting). > > In GeoTools code I need some time parsing capabilities which are already > available in GeoServer's TimeParser (module: gs-ows). > > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/master/src/ows/src/main/java/org/geoserver/ows/kvp/TimeParser.java > > > ImageMosaic also have its own TimeParser which does something slightly > different and lacks a couple of methods available on GeoServer's one. > > I'm evaluating the possibility to move the TimeParser from gs-ows to a > GeoTools module, so that both GeoServer and ImageMosaic will depend on the > same class. With this approach we can avoid duplicated code, duplicated > tests and duplicated bugs (so things to be fixed in 2 different places). > > This certainly seems like a good plan, > Is it possible to do that? (any licensing issue here?) > It is possible (i.e. we've done similar before) - there is a licencing issue as the code needs to go from GPL to LGPL but as OSgeo "owns" both code bases I don't think it is an issue, I can't recall how we dealt with the issue last time though. > If affirmative, what would be the right procedure to do that? > Would be JIRAs + PRs (including a deprecation of current TimeParser) > enough for that? > > Probably a GISP or at least a pair of Jiras. Andrea will know best! Not sure if GeoServer would need to deprecate the TimeParser, though GeoTools would certainly want to. Ian
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