On 03/08/2011 11:09 AM, christopher.schm...@nokia.com wrote: > > 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
Thanks for the info. Then it sounds like filters should really be formats. Cheers, Volker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list d...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev
