Thanks Ale for the explanation. Indeed, a suboptimal situation. Perhaps worth an ad hoc crowdfunding. Cheers.
Il 31/10/19 16:40, Alessandro Pasotti ha scritto: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 4:28 PM Paolo Cavallini <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > apparently our server does not expose the metadata stored in the project > and layer properties: > * is this true? > > > There is a metadata section in the server configuration (Service > Capabilities) of the project properties, modeled on WMS/WFS metadata, > they are exposed. The sad thing is that when the new metadata framework > was developed it was not connected with the existing server metadata, so > we currently have two separate APIs for metadata, the old very limited > one for the server and the new one. On the other hand, the old existing > API is exactly what was required by WMS/WFS. > > > * is there any reason for this, besides the usual lack of resources to > implement it? > > > Not that I'm aware of. > > > * anyone has estimates or plans to implement it? > > > Not that I'm aware of. > > I though about it for WFS3 but I couldn't find the time/resources to do > anything (mainly because of missing API in the server), for now I've > just implemented what was available in the server's WFS code. > > > > Moreover, I wonder how users are managing their metadata from QGIS, now > that several plugins that helped compiling them are not available for > current versions. Any feedback will be appreciated. > Cheers. > -- > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu <http://www.faunalia.eu> > QGIS.ORG <http://QGIS.ORG> Chair: > http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/ > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > -- > Alessandro Pasotti > w3: www.itopen.it <http://www.itopen.it> > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS.ORG Chair: http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/ _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
