[udig-devel] Strange issues editing wfs data

[Jesse Eichar]

On 8-Mar-07, at 3:04 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:

> Hi,
> working with WFS editing in uDig I noticed something strange.
> If I move a point (in a point layer) outside of the current bbox,
> it won't be displayed anymore.
> I tried to recomputed the bbox in Geoserver, and then do a reset on
> the udig catalog, but nothing. The only way to make the point re- 
> appear
> is to restart udig.
>

Sounds like a bug.  I think the capabilities are cached without  
regard to editing.  This needs to be a bug report.  I'll file it.


> Now, given the amount of describefeaturetype udig executes on  
> Geoserver,
> I would expect the bbox to be always up to date.
> Plus, I don't see why udig is using the bbox to constraint the queries
> on the server... if I zoom out, the query stays the same because
> apparently you're interesecting the view bbox with the data  
> declared bbox.
> Funny enough, the table view contains the moved point, and it gets
> displayed when I click it on the table view (is the table view
> loading data without bbox constraints? haven't checked).
>
> Given that next geoserver won't recompute the bbox at each describe
> feature to avoid issues with big datasets  (that do take up to minutes
> to compute a bbox with the current code), and also considering that
> all workaround we can find will just provide an estimated bbox,
> I would really urge you to avoid relying on the declared bbox for
> GetFeature requests.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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Jesse Eichar
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