Hi Tara,
As far as I can tell, there is no such entry on the 2011 GSoC listing - http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Summer+of+Code+2011 only contains one idea page, for WorldWind integration. In the 2010 ideas page there is indeed the REST configuration idea. However, the deadline for mentoring organizations is up already for this year and GeoServer is not one of them (handy calendar for reference: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2011). So I think you will not be able to work a GeoServer-sponsored summer of code project this year.
If you are still interested in working on a client library for the REST API I have some relevant experience and will be happy to offer what advice I can, as I’m sure will other developers on this list. But please don’t expect the level of support that you’d be getting from a summer of code mentor - the reason GeoServer is not a participating organization this year is that none of the core developers are available for that level of time commitment. I hope this doesn’t discourage you - as you already pointed out, REST client development is one of the more straightforward (and useful!) contributions that could be made to GeoServer.
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David Winslow
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Tara Athan <taraathan@anonymised.com> wrote:
I am considering applying for the 2011 GSoC. I was looking through the
Ideas site and noticed that item about the REST configuration (from
David Winslow perhaps?)
As you may recall, I wrote the existing Geoserver manual page on PHP
scripts to implement the REST interface.
http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/restconfig/rest-config-examples-php.html
In looking through the developers mailing list, I see not much action
regarding this topic, but I see a nice contribution from Ryan Williams
on implementing PUT.
http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Geoserver-2-X-and-ArcSDE-8-3-td6120768.html#a6120771
PUT is one of the “sticky wickets” for this project, because it is
necessary to be careful with the file, managing the hand-offs from the
client to the web-server to the geoserver, in the most general case.
The other key issue I see is with authorization - usernames and
passwords need to be handled securely. Of course there is plenty of
advice on the internet about handling authorization securely with PHP.
So this looks like a fairly straight-forward project. Did I miss anything?
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Tara Athan
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