And it will certainly pay more for the customers to ask to add the old-fashioned XML support afterwards when they need to use their first non-Geoserver server. But I understand also the wish to be lean.
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Nuno Oliveira wrote:
Re: [Geoserver-devel] Add a WMS vendor FORMAT parameter to force the return of WMS 1.1.1 capabilities in text/xml
As I said my intention right now is only to allow the user to force the capabilities mime type to be text\xml using the format parameter.
I will create an issue and prepare a pull request for this.
Having a JSON output format for WMS 1.1.1 capabilities and others services will certainly help building light web clients specific to GeoServer.
On 01/31/2017 08:09 PM, Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote:
Hi,
I am not very fascinated. After all WMS 1.1.1 is standard and your colleagues would need to be able to parse both JSON and XML (application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml) in the future because people do run also other servers than Geoserver. For all heavy WMS clients XML and the odd MIME type is not a problem.
The mime type does irritate me as well when I want to check the capabilities with browser but instead of writing &format=text/xml I can write &version=1.3.0 and nowadays most servers send me a browser-friendly response. It’s WMS 1.3.0 response but what I am interested in is most often a) does it work at all or b) which layers exist I can check them both also with 1.3.0. Hower, I can’t imagine what trouble the new vendor option &format=text/xml could do, despite making some users to believe that all WMS servers support it. Format=JSON could be an issue if some unaware user would copy-paste the good known URL into WMS client like QGIS, which would then get capabilities as JSON and fail to interpret the data.
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Chris Snider wrote:
Re: [Geoserver-devel] Add a WMS vendor FORMAT parameter to force the return of WMS 1.1.1 capabilities in text/xml
I think this is a good addition since my client-side colleagues would prefer JSON responses vice XML as JSON is “easier to parse in JavaScript”
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If in the future someone implements other formats capabilities documents generators like JSON this parameter should be used for that.
Right now I only planned to add support for the text\xml format 
On 01/31/2017 04:08 PM, Chris Snider wrote:
Would the vendor FORMAT parameter also be used in future to return the GetCapabilities in application/json or application/javascript
For json-p?
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Hi,
The WMS 1.1.1 GetCapabilities XML response uses the OGC specific mime type application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml. I would like to propose a new WMS vendor parameter named FORMAT that can be used to force the response mime type to something more well recognized like text/xml. Note that WMS 1.3.0 GetCapabilities result already uses text/xml.
This will imply implementing the handling of the FORMAT parameter when generating the GetCapabilities response for WMS 1.1.1 and adding text/xml as a supported mime type for WMS 1.1.1 GetCapabilities result. In the case were an invalid mime type is requested we will log an warning and fall-back on the OGC default one.
Thoughts on this ?
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