Support new version of OGC API based on OpenAPI

OGC web site: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/

The first goal of this page is to prepare the Camptocamp-OGC CodeSprint: https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/

Analyze the API that concerns GeoMapFish

Common https://ogcapi.ogc.org/common/

Are we impacted?

Tiles https://ogcapi.ogc.org/tiles/ (accepted)

We should update TileCloud-chain probably with https://pypi.org/project/pyramid-openapi3/ and https://pypi.org/project/python-openapi/ Using it didn't look to give any benefit at medium therm

Features https://ogcapi.ogc.org/features/ (accepted)

No benefit since we didn’t get JSON geometries with CRS and layer. See e.g. https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogc-feat-geo-json https://www.ogc.org/news/ogc-members-propose-new-features-and-geometries-json-standards-working-group-public-comment-sought/ But looks to be abandoned…

Styles https://ogcapi.ogc.org/styles/

Are we impacted by legend?

Maps https://ogcapi.ogc.org/maps/

Using it didn't look to give any benefit at medium therm

Landing page

It should work to have the benefit of that.

Landing page implementation impact and action: See how it works with MapServer and QgisServer do we have a page that presents all the projects?

Should we have a URL like .../mapserv_proxy/<ogs_server_base>/<project>?

I yes we probably should add a new kind of object in GeoMapFish admin.

Code sprint action

• Get Status of projects OpenLayers, QgisServer, MapServer, GeoServer
  • QgisServer, MapServer, GeoServer: OGC API Feature implemented
  • OpenLayers: don't looks to have any implementation
• Start landing page of QgisServer ant MapServer:
  • Inspect the requests
  • Try to serve on a custom path
  • Is there a page that serve all the projects (what's the URL of the different projects)
    • QGIS Server
      • Serve page that presents the projects
      • Configuration: QGIS_SERVER_LANDING_PAGE_PROJECTS_DIRECTORIES=/etc/qgisserver, QGIS_SERVER_LANDING_PAGE_PREFIX=/mapserv_proxy/qgis.
      • Project URL: http://localhost:9092/mapserv_proxy/qgis/index.html#/map/45515f5b2a6cc599e6622882bd9354c8 and http://localhost:9092/mapserv_proxy/qgis/project/45515f5b2a6cc599e6622882bd9354c8/* (should be secured)
      • error 500 on http://localhost:9092/mapserv_proxy/qgis/favicon.ico: Project file error. For OWS services: please provide a SERVICE and a MAP parameter pointing to a valid QGIS project file
      • http://localhost:9092/mapserv_proxy/qgis/map/45515f5b2a6cc599e6622882bd9354c8.json: Kind of capabilities
      • http://localhost:9092/mapserv_proxy/qgis/project/45515f5b2a6cc599e6622882bd9354c8/?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=...: Classic WMS server
      • http://localhost:9092/mapserv_proxy/qgis/index.json: general capabilities that should be able to do a link between project id and title.
    • MapServer:
      • Not finished: https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-134.html
      • Don't looks to serve page that presents the projects
      • Configuration: MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE: /etc/mapserver/mapserver.conf, OGCAPI_HTML_TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY: /usr/local/share/mapserver/ogcapi/templates/html-bootstrap4/.
      • Work only on URL /<project>/ogcapi but can generate URL that ends by /<project>/ogcapi...
  • Conclusion
    • With the current version of OGC API we query only one layer at one time, and we get GeoJson in WGS 84...
    • For QgisServer server we should create a new kind of object (like OGC_Server base) and read the file /mapserv_proxy/qgis/index.json to map the project name to the project title.
    • For MapServer we should rewrite the path...
• Tiles: implement it in TileCloud-chain
• Create an index page on /mapserv_proxy (no sub path and no ogcserver in query string) with a link to the landing pages of all the OGC servers.
• Create a table named ‘Base OGC Server’ (if needed)
  • Move into it the field Base URL (sub URL will be in OGC Server), Server Type, Auth type (what about support WFS)
  • The new API will be /mapserv_proxy///…
  • The old API will continue to work (/mapserv_proxy?ogcserver=...)
  • The QGIS server plugin should be updated to support the new schema (URL and database)