Hi,
I wouldn't call it hard to install Geoserver extensions but it is still a little bit frustrating to download and unzip them one by one especially because we have new releases so often nowadays.
It would be nice to have a tool which lets user to select all the desired extensions from a list at once and then download and extract them automatically. I don't know if the importer module that Andrea is working on is doing somehow similar thing but for me it feels so. Also that will be pushing some new files into a certain place on a server.
-Jukka Rahkonen-
Hi Jukka,
+0.Reasoning: Once downloaded I extract them all at once to the same directory then copy that lot over in one go. Only takes a few seconds.
The other reason is that a integrated tool wouldn’t necessarily work for us - our GeoServer’s don’t have unfiltered access to the internet which is probably a pretty common setup.
Jonathan
On 13 August 2013 13:56, Rahkonen Jukka <jukka.rahkonen@anonymised.com> wrote:
Hi,
I wouldn’t call it hard to install Geoserver extensions but it is still a little bit frustrating to download and unzip them one by one especially because we have new releases so often nowadays.
It would be nice to have a tool which lets user to select all the desired extensions from a list at once and then download and extract them automatically. I don’t know if the importer module that Andrea is working on is doing somehow similar thing but for me it feels so. Also that will be pushing some new files into a certain place on a server.
-Jukka Rahkonen-
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Rahkonen Jukka
<jukka.rahkonen@anonymised.com>wrote:
Hi,
I wouldn't call it hard to install Geoserver extensions but it is still a
little bit frustrating to download and unzip them one by one especially
because we have new releases so often nowadays.
I agree. As usual, it's a matter of finding developer time to spend in that
direction, and it's not so easy
to make something that would work cross container.
Basically we'd need something that stops the container, downloads and
installs the extensions, and restarts the container.
Hudson has some way to automate that, but uses a plugin system that's
different from the GeoServer one, and I believe
they keep the extensions in something that looks like the data directory.
It would be nice to have a tool which lets user to select all the desired
extensions from a list at once and then download and extract them
automatically. I don't know if the importer module that Andrea is working
on is doing somehow similar thing but for me it feels so. Also that will be
pushing some new files into a certain place on a server.
No, the importer is about ingesting lots of layers automatically (either
via GUI or REST), without having to manually add them one by one,
and eventually process them a bit or save them into a target database
Cheers
Andrea
--
Ing. Andrea Aime
@geowolf
Technical Lead
GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Via Poggio alle Viti 1187
55054 Massarosa (LU)
Italy
phone: +39 0584 962313
fax: +39 0584 1660272
mob: +39 339 8844549
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Jonathan Moules <
jonathanmoules@anonymised.com> wrote:
Hi Jukka,
+0.
Reasoning: Once downloaded I extract them all at once to the same
directory then copy that lot over in one go. Only takes a few seconds.
The other reason is that a integrated tool wouldn't necessarily work for
us - our GeoServer's don't have unfiltered access to the internet which is
probably a pretty common setup.
At one point I fantasized about a "GeoServer mixer" thing (website, desktop
application) where one could cherry-pick the GeoServer version, list of
desired extensions,
and the tool would create a custom .war from it.
Making it as a web site would be suicidal, it would bring too much traffic
and we're not sourceforge.
Making a desktop tool would be more feasible, but I believe nobody around
here has developed desktop apps in several years
Plus, there would be the onus of keeping the list of files for the tool
up-to-date at every release...
Cheers
Andrea
--
Ing. Andrea Aime
@geowolf
Technical Lead
GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Via Poggio alle Viti 1187
55054 Massarosa (LU)
Italy
phone: +39 0584 962313
fax: +39 0584 1660272
mob: +39 339 8844549
http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it
-------------------------------------------------------
On 13 August 2013 14:11, Andrea Aime <andrea.aime@anonymised.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Jonathan Moules <
jonathanmoules@anonymised.com> wrote:
Hi Jukka,
+0.
Reasoning: Once downloaded I extract them all at once to the same
directory then copy that lot over in one go. Only takes a few seconds.
The other reason is that a integrated tool wouldn't necessarily work for
us - our GeoServer's don't have unfiltered access to the internet which is
probably a pretty common setup.
At one point I fantasized about a "GeoServer mixer" thing (website,
desktop application) where one could cherry-pick the GeoServer version,
list of desired extensions,
and the tool would create a custom .war from it.
Making it as a web site would be suicidal, it would bring too much traffic
and we're not sourceforge.
Making a desktop tool would be more feasible, but I believe nobody around
here has developed desktop apps in several years
Plus, there would be the onus of keeping the list of files for the tool
up-to-date at every release...
I was toying with the idea for this the other day - since JBoss doesn't
unpack the war file in the same place each time so you have to hand build a
war file with your extension(s) and web.xml edits etc in it to deploy. This
is a bit of a pain but I didn't get any further than wishing 
May next week if I'm still facing the issue
Ian