Showing metadata per layer in map

[gannebamm]

Problem: When I, as a viewer, look at a map with multiple data layers, I do not get detailed information about the layers used in the map without leaving it. So far, I can look at the map, but this jumps to the respective data set and the map is exited.

Objective: As a viewer, I would like to be able to display the detail panel of the layer on the right-hand side via an additional layer on the right side. For this, I do not leave the map view. A mockup is shown in the following figure.

[gannebamm]

Thünen has worked on that idea and provides a PR solution here: Thuenen-GeoNode-Development#22

If this is interesting for a general audience we will upstream the feature

[gannebamm]

@allyoucanmap @giohappy Do you think this is interesting for a wider audience and shall we prepare a proper PR for this?

[giohappy]

@gannebamm looks interesting and useful indeed!
Yes please open a PR. However, I cannot guarantee we will be able to have a look soon, since we're closing for Christmas.

[giohappy]

@gannebamm any chance to take a look at the code (PR) for this feature?

[ridoo]

@giohappy we have regression with this since v4.2.2: The linked resources have to be mapped now (as it is done in the DetailViewer). The point here is, that the linked resources endpoint is only available on /resources but not /datasets which includes the attribute_set rendered in the Attributes tab. @ahmdthr is figuring out how to deal with this .. for example, if making a second request to /datasets would be needed (which is not very nice solution TBH).

[gannebamm]

@giohappy I know it is not a PR and not tracking master, but the latest code @ahmdthr has done is listed here: https://github.com/Thuenen-GeoNode-Development/geonode-mapstore-client/pull/22/files

As @ridoo said there are still some issues. Shall we create a draft PR?

[ridoo]

@gannebamm I am doing a re-test as @ahmdthr says, it works on his machine. However, AFAIK the linked_resources endpoint is only available for resources, not datasets. Maybe I am overlooking something ...

Edit: And he is right :) .. the mapstore-client is doing requests on both endpoints /resources and /datasets. I will merge the regression he fixed.

[giohappy]

@ridoo @gannebamm I invite you to keep this on hold for a few hours. We're about to merge a GeoNode/geonode#12080 that will optionally include linked_resources inside the response for all the resources endpoints if ?include[]=linked_resources is used.
This was done to avoid having to do too many additional requests (that will particularly affect the new development for the mapviewers)

[gannebamm]

We will start working on this again soon.