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.

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