Welcome to django-ows-lib documentation!

django-ows-lib

Well layered ows lib with a client implementation to communicate with ogc services with django based objects, including xml mapper classes to serialize and deserialize ows xml files, such as capabilities.

Features

• WMS client

• WFS client

• CSW client

Quick-Start

Install it as any other django app to your project:

$ pip install django-ows-lib

Warning

As pre requirement you will need to install the gdal and geos binaries on your system first.

See the documentation for details.

Contents

• Installation
  • 1. Install gdal dependencies
  • 2. Install python package
• Tutorial
  • Client
    • WebMapService
• Development
  • 1. Create the virtual environment
  • 2. Clone the project
  • 3. Install dependencies
  • 4. Create a dummy Django project and app to be able to use and test django-ows-lib
  • 5. Create the folder structure to be able to use django commands
  • 6. Register the owslibtest app in the projects settings.py
  • 7. Create a the python file which can be invoked via django command
  • 8. Running the test from the django project folder
  • 9. Install the local lib into the venv to make ows_lib available to the test script
  • 10. Do the first test - e.g. try to invoke a CSW and parse the result
  • 11. Running tests
  • 12. Build docs
• Changelog
  • [v0.9.2] - 2023-11-9
    • Fixed
  • [v0.9.1] - 2023-11-9
    • Fixed
  • [v0.9.0] - 2023-11-8
    • Added
  • [v0.8.1] - 2023-11-7
    • Fixed
  • [v0.8.0] - 2023-11-2
    • Added
  • [v0.7.1] - 2023-10-26
    • Fixed
  • [v0.7.0] - 2023-10-26
    • Changed
  • [v0.6.0] - 2023-10-24
    • Added
  • [v0.5.4] - 2023-10-05
    • Fixed
  • [v0.5.3] - 2023-09-15
    • Fixed
  • [v0.5.2] - 2023-09-15
    • Fixed
  • [v0.5.1] - 2023-09-14
    • Fixed
  • [v0.5.0] - 2023-09-14
    • Changed
    • Added
  • [v0.4.2] - 2023-09-14
    • Fixed
  • [v0.4.1] - 2023-05-26
    • Fixed
  • [v0.4.0] - 2023-05-26
    • Added
  • [v0.3.0] - 2023-05-25
    • Changed
    • Removed
  • [v0.2.0] - 2023-05-17
    • Added
    • Changed
  • [v0.1.2] - 2023-05-16
    • Added
    • Fixed
  • [v0.1.1] - 2023-05-15
    • Fixed
  • [v0.1.0] - 2023-05-15
    • Added
• Code documentation
  • Client
    • Abstract OgcClient base class
      • OgcClient
        • OgcClient.capabilities
        • OgcClient.get_capabilitites_request()
        • OgcClient.send_request()
      • OGCServiceMixin
        • OGCServiceMixin.camouflage_urls()
        • OGCServiceMixin.get_operation_url_by_name_and_method()
        • OGCServiceMixin.operation_urls
      • WebMapServiceMixin
        • WebMapServiceMixin.capabilities
        • WebMapServiceMixin.crs_qp
        • WebMapServiceMixin.get_feature_info_operation_name
        • WebMapServiceMixin.get_feature_info_request()
        • WebMapServiceMixin.get_map_operation_name
        • WebMapServiceMixin.get_map_request()
      • WebFeatureServiceMixin
        • WebFeatureServiceMixin.capabilities
        • WebFeatureServiceMixin.describe_feature_type_request()
        • WebFeatureServiceMixin.get_feature_request()
        • WebFeatureServiceMixin.output_format_qp
        • WebFeatureServiceMixin.type_name_qp
      • CatalogueServiceMixin
        • CatalogueServiceMixin.capabilities
        • CatalogueServiceMixin.get_constraint()
        • CatalogueServiceMixin.get_record_by_id_request()
        • CatalogueServiceMixin.get_records_request()
        • CatalogueServiceMixin.queryable_type_name()
    • Utitily functions
      • construct_polygon_from_bbox_query_param()
      • get_client()
      • get_requested_feature_types()
      • get_requested_layers()
      • get_requested_records()
      • update_queryparams()