[Geoserver-devel] [jira] Created: (GEOS-1523) allow for more BoundingBox elements in GetCapabilities responses

allow for more BoundingBox elements in GetCapabilities responses
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                 Key: GEOS-1523
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1523
             Project: GeoServer
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: WMS
    Affects Versions: 1.6.0-RC1
            Reporter: Tim Schaub
            Assignee: Andrea Aime
            Priority: Minor

Currently, a bounding box for the native SRS is published in a (wms) capabilities doc. In addition, a client can rely on the LatLonBoundingBox. It would be nice if layers could be advertised with bboxes in more SRS. Based on discussion with Andrea, this could be done in one of three ways:

1) a configuration option to advertise additional bbox/srs information for all layers

2) a configuration option to advertise additional bbox/srs information on a select set of layers (configured per layer)

3) a vendor specific parameter that would request additional bbox/srs information in a capabilities response

Since the first two require changes to the configuration UI, it sounds like the third would be the most straightforward to implement. From the perspective of a client-side application designer, more vendor specific parameters mean a more tightly coupled (brittle) connection between client and server.

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