[Geoserver-devel] Entry point into Geoserver

Hello, I’m writing some custom modules for geoserver and am curious as to how a request is routed (I know about OWS but I’d like to look over some of the built-in modules like WMS)… is there an explicit entry point into geoserver that performs the routing of request or is that wholly within spring?
is the fetching of the appropriate data stores (from the layer list) performed within each module or before the module is even chosen?
If anyone has any documentation to start off with I’d rather get a more targeted approach before I just start from the start and search the entire source source tree myself,

Thank you!

Signed,
Alessandro Ferrucci

Hi Alessandro,

There are multiple levels of routing… the first is defined in web.xml:

dispatcher

org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet

dispatcher

/*

This essentially routes everything to the spring mvc framework. From there routing is defined by various entries in the spring applicationContext.xml files for all the modules. For instance in main:

dispatcher

dispatcher

This routes any requests with path “ows” to the ows dispatcher. There are similar entities set up in the wms/wfs/wcs/etc… .modules. This is also used to route to other destinations, for instance with rest endpoints:

restWrapper

restWrapper

From there the the two dispatchers to their own routing to dispatcher to the service (ows) or the restlet (rest) to handle the request.

Hope that helps.

-Justin

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Alessandro Ferrucci <alessandroferrucci@anonymised.com03…> wrote:

Hello, I’m writing some custom modules for geoserver and am curious as to how a request is routed (I know about OWS but I’d like to look over some of the built-in modules like WMS)… is there an explicit entry point into geoserver that performs the routing of request or is that wholly within spring?
is the fetching of the appropriate data stores (from the layer list) performed within each module or before the module is even chosen?
If anyone has any documentation to start off with I’d rather get a more targeted approach before I just start from the start and search the entire source source tree myself,

Thank you!

Signed,
Alessandro Ferrucci


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Yep, very helpful. You’ve saved me lots of research time.
Regards,
Alessandro Ferrucci

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Justin Deoliveira <jdeolive@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi Alessandro,

There are multiple levels of routing… the first is defined in web.xml:

dispatcher

org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet

dispatcher

/*

This essentially routes everything to the spring mvc framework. From there routing is defined by various entries in the spring applicationContext.xml files for all the modules. For instance in main:

dispatcher

dispatcher

This routes any requests with path “ows” to the ows dispatcher. There are similar entities set up in the wms/wfs/wcs/etc… .modules. This is also used to route to other destinations, for instance with rest endpoints:

restWrapper

restWrapper

From there the the two dispatchers to their own routing to dispatcher to the service (ows) or the restlet (rest) to handle the request.

Hope that helps.

-Justin

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Alessandro Ferrucci <alessandroferrucci@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hello, I’m writing some custom modules for geoserver and am curious as to how a request is routed (I know about OWS but I’d like to look over some of the built-in modules like WMS)… is there an explicit entry point into geoserver that performs the routing of request or is that wholly within spring?
is the fetching of the appropriate data stores (from the layer list) performed within each module or before the module is even chosen?
If anyone has any documentation to start off with I’d rather get a more targeted approach before I just start from the start and search the entire source source tree myself,

Thank you!

Signed,
Alessandro Ferrucci


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Enterprise support for open source geospatial.