On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:00 PM, ext Volker Mische wrote: > On 03/08/2011 09:24 AM, Eric Lemoine wrote: >> On Tuesday, March 8, 2011, Tim Schaub <tsch...@opengeo.org> wrote: >>> Hey- >>> >>> Following what I think was our agreement about the default filter >>> serialization for the HTTP protocol needing a more general name (than >>> MapFishFilterSerializer), I committed a SimpleFilterSerializer script. >> >> >> When we discussed this initially I suggested to write a Format instead >> of introducing a new type (Serializer). Did that just make no sense to >> you? >> > > I don't understand how this could be a format. Aren't formats for > rendering stuff that comes back from the server?
Not really. Formats convert from strings to internal OL objects and back again -- so for example, the OGC Filter read/write implementation (or CQL filters), even when the filters are used internally to OpenLayers, are done via formats. -- Chris_______________________________________________ Dev mailing list d...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev