Align GetFeatureInfo and GetFeature outputs
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Key: GEOS-835
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-835
Project: GeoServer
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Chris Holmes
Assigned To: Andrea Aime
Fix For: 1.6.0
GetFeatureInfo and GetFeature are really two versions of the same thing - get information about a geographic area. Both have advantages - GetFeature allows all sorts of filters against the data, but GetFeatureInfo has the key advantage of letting one input x,y pixel on a map, instead of figuring out the geographic location.
Right now GetFeatureInfo has three outputs - html, text, and gml.
GetFeature has 2-3 GML, Shapefile, JSON.
There's no reason a GetFeature couldn't return text or html, or GetFeatureInfo gml, shapefile or JSON.
So we should have a commont 'output format' definition, and then make it so both GetFeatureInfo and GetFeature can pass to the common output.
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