Hi everybody ! I'm Alexis Guéganno and currently am part of the OrbisGIS development team. First message on this list, I hope I'll do the things right.
We've been stuck recently in OrbisGIS with our WMS client implementation. It was made of legacy code that was pretty unefficient... So we've searched for a solution. As one of my teammates knew the openJUMP code base, having been a contributor here, he advised me to have a look in the openJUMP client. After some readings in it, I decided to give it a try and had to solve the following issues : - extract the code from openJUMP and put it in the OrbisGIS code base - Add support for WMS 1.3.0 - Fix OrbisGIS to use the library from openJUMP. I made the first operation in two steps. I first put the code directly in ours... and then realize that it was not practical for me or for other developers. I decided to put it in a dedicated maven project so that it can be used with more ease. It has been quite easy has the code is already well isolated in openJUMP and as you don't have exotic dependencies on it. The second and third steps have been a bit more difficult. I've had some problems with bounding box and crs management that I've tried to solve. Fortunately, as WMS 1.1.1 is already ready, I've been able to use it to build the WMS 1.3.0 support. It seems to be working with most servers now. The ones I'm having problems with seem to be buggy, so the problems I have seem not to come from the client... A huge modification I've made is linked to the recognition of the server version. It had to be asked explicitly by the caller until now, but I did not find a way to check the uppest supported version from the server... What I do is that I perform a ?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities request, that shall give me some capabilities document, and I try to recognize the version from it. The client assumed the server to be 1.0.0 I've tried not to change the code base much. In some places, however, I've sometimes removed comments or done some other minor modifications... I've removed some call to swing/awt APIs as I didn't want to face AWT exceptions while performing batch processing. The API is still the same, though. I've added a method in MapLayer to retrieve the BoundingBox associated to a given SRS/CRS, if any, but I think that's all. And WMS 1.3.0, but I already said that :-p There are still some things to do. 1.3.0 support is not perfect, as we don't process completely the GetMap part of the GetCapabilities answer. Consequently, if the HTTP GET URI in the GetMap part of the answer is not the same one that is used to make the GetMap query, we may face unexpected behaivour.... Moreover, when processing XML documents, we do not take the XML namespace definition in account so some tags and attributes won't be recognized in some cases... You can find the code I've written on Github. It' has been merged today in OrbisGIS master on https://github.com/irstv/orbisgis You'll find the code I've changed under the "wms-client" maven subproject. It should be quite easy to port back in openJUMP, I would be really happy if this could happen. I've decided not to change package names so that my work stays compatible with what you've made in openJUMP. If you think I've made mistakes that must be solved before merging, let me know here, I'll try to do them as soon as possible (hopefully some day in the next 12 monthes, so :-p) And as a conclusion : thanks for the original code. I found it clear and easy to read and understand, I hope it didn't loose any clarity because of me. Best wishes, Alexis Guéganno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
