[Geoserver-users] Bundled GeoWebCache - How to remove builtin grid sets?

GeoServer GeoServer User
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In my newly installed GeoServer, the bundled GeoWebCache comes with a lot of built-in grid sets, most of which are useless for my usecases.

Version information : GeoServer 2.26.1 - bundled GeoWebCache

I would like to only keep a subset of them and some custom ones. The checkboxes of the built-in grid sets that would allow me to remove them are disabled. If I remember well this was nt the case in older versions of GeoWebCache. How can I remove built-in grid sets ?

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The build-in gridsets are hard-coded and cannot be removed, sorry!

Cheers
Andrea

3

Thank you very much for your quick answer.

Not even possible by editing an XML config file?

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Nope, you’d have to change some classes in the GeoWebCache sources:

Those gridsets are “built-in” because they come from an OGC specification, they are an international standard, when a client sees those well known names, it could avoid inspecting the full definition:

https://docs.ogc.org/is/17-083r2/17-083r2.html

Actually… version 2 of that standard is out and I believe some new built-in gridsets could be added as a result

Cheers
Andrea

5

Thank you very much one again !