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[THREDDS #XIG-399067]: default colorScaleRange for WMS within the TDS?

> Hi, er, whoever sent this ;-)

Sorry, its John here.

> 
> >  we now have a Berkeley DB key/value store where one can persist such info.
> > When asked for the range, first look to see if there is a user-configured 
> > one.
> > If not, look to see if theres one thats been stored for that dataset and 
> > variable.
> > If not, generate it and store it.
> 
> This could be useful, but the sysadmin needs to be able to set the default 
> colour scale range manually, since the automatically-extracted one may not be 
> suitable.  So we'd need some sort of web interface to allow this.  (A 
> command-line interface could work, but we'd have to be careful to allow TDS 
> to read from the database while the sysadmin was updating it.)
> 
> Do you think it's easier to implement the Berkeley DB solution (plus 
> interface) or to provide the configuration through an XML file on the server? 
>  I guess the Berkeley DB solution has the advantage that the changes could 
> "go live" without a server reboot.

The idea I had was to keep the XML config file for manual setting. The BDB is 
for storing auto-generated values, so wouldnt need a web interface.

Since we need the XML manual config file anyway, we could proceed with that 
immediately, and add the BDB backup asap.

John


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: XIG-399067
Department: Support THREDDS
Priority: Urgent
Status: Open