Manage multi-polygons

[yvesm]

Currently, the only service that supports writing to PostGIS in GeoPrisma is FeatureServer. However, FS does not support multiple geometries, at least multipolygons and this is a drag because ETL tools (e.g. Talend) tend to create multipolygons to begin with. Even if multipolygons which really are polygons can be coerced into polygons in PostGIS (or using other tools), there are cases where features are true multipolygons. Those can be read fine, but cannot be edited. Would MapFish Server help here ?

[adube]

TinyOWS could be a nice solution too :

• It's a light CGI for the WFS service, rather than a heavy Java solution consuming memory permanently.
• Supports OGC filters
• Can output JSON
• FastCGI support
• Very simple configuration file

[yvesm]

We could proxy to TinyOWS for sure. But for the record may I add that we haven't covered the use of MFS really seriously. MFS will run very efficiently under Apache's mod_wsgi (which is no big Java process either). In fact I'd be curious to test speed FS (mod_wsgi or mod_python), MFS (mod_wsgi) and TinyOWS (FCGI) for GeoJSON. MFS also has the possibility of returning only feature attributes (no geometry) so that could be very interesting in pop ups or to populate dropdownlists e.g. shortcut.

The support for OGC filters is something really cool though but ​http://mapfish.org/doc/2.0/framework/customizing-webservices.html#adding-filters looks cool too. Anyways, that's lots of new services for us to proxy to in the future :-)

[adube]

FeatureServer will never have this new feature. Is this still a valid issue ?

[adube]

We should decide if we still want to support featureserver in 1.2

[adube]

FeatureServer is marked for deprecation in 1.2, so we could forget this fix.

[adube]

No patch, pushed to 1.6.

[adube]

No patch, pushed to 1.8.