GSIP 185

GSIP 1234 - Promote Web Resource to Extension

Overview

The community module web-resourceto an extension.

Proposed By

Jody Garnett (GeoCat) is proposing this activity to better support our customers using GeoServer in a hosted environment (without direct shell access).

Assigned to Release

This proposal is for GeoServer 2.17-beta.

State

• Under Discussion
• In Progress
• Completed
• Rejected
• Deferred

Motivation

GeoServer Resource API provides programatic management of configuration files and icons. The REST API makes this functionality available for automation, we would like to make web-resource module an extension to offer this capability to web administration application.

Proposal

Proposal covers:

#. Moving the module from community to extension in the build system #. Updating the website template to make the extension easy to evaluate #. Updating the pom.xml contract information #. Writing documentation for the extension

• Installation
• Reference page for the user interface
• Example of uploading an icon to a styles folder
• Example of editing an app-schema configuration file
• Example of editing control-flow configuration file

The module is successful in meetings its objectives:

• The primary motivation is to manage icons, fonts and symbology associated with the the style editor.
• The secondary motivation is to directly edit configuration files such as image mosaic, app-schema and free marker templates to do not provide their own user interface.

Backwards Compatibility

This extensions is strictly additive and does not have any backwards compatibility implications.

Feedback / Discussion

The module itself warrants some discussion:

• Jody has found production use of the Resource REST API being used to modify security configuration files (this works as those files are 'watched'). Is this a capability we wish to support, or should these files be blacklisted now that there is some ability to manage these files via their own REST-API?

Voting

Project Steering Committee:

• Alessio Fabiani:
• Andrea Aime:
• Ian Turton:
• Jody Garnett:
• Jukka Rahkonen:
• Kevin Smith:
• Simone Giannecchini:
• Torben Barsballe:
• Nuno Oliveira:

Links

• GeoTools / GeoServer Meeting 2019-03-01