Excel downloads for WPS

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Hello GeoServer community,

I am writing to propose a small addition to the WPS download feature, which would allow retrieving vector data in MS Excel format. Since there is already a gs-excel module, the idea would be to refactor it first to make the “Excel writer” component reusable in a WPS PPIO module, which would then be responsible for the WPS download output.

Additionally, I would like to ask if it is possible to promote this new extension directly to “extensions”, given its small size (literally just one class).

You can have a look at my initial implementation here: PR #8824.

Thanks for your help and support!
– Alessandro

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I think it’s fine, it would be one small extra PPIO class wrapping the existing excel production code, we did something similar for the WPS KML support.

Cheers
Andrea

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