Hi,
another question for implementing my new datastore.
I have defined a layer which uses TIME. Now if somebody requests the layer without providing a time parameter then the query I receive at
protected FeatureReader<SimpleFeatureType, SimpleFeature> getReaderInternal(Query query)
contains a TIME propertyName and a IncludeFilter. What I understand is that geoserver wants me to produce all data for any time and the spatial filtering is done somewhere else.
I would have expected that the filter contains only the spatial component and the lack of a time constraint/filter automatically does not perform a filtering on time.
On the other hand side if I do not switch on TIME in the layer definition and I provide a TIME attribute it does not find its way into the filter of the query.
The only option I see to make a time constraint optional is by adding the constraint into viewparams, but that looks like a hack to me and I would like to prevent this.
Thus, here the question: Is there a possibility to have an optional TIME parameter, which is included in the filter of the query in case it is present in the map request or not included otherwise?
Or is there an option to set a default value for the TIME parameter in case there is no valid time specified in the request?
Thanks in advance.
best regards
Andreas