[Community] OWSLib - Access WMS attribution info

[David Winslow]

On 12/03/2009 12:20 PM, David Winslow wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For a project I'm working on, I'd like to access the Attribution field 
> on some layers in a WMS capabilities document.  I'd love to use OWSLib 
> (looks like it would be a lot easier to use than parsing the XML 
> directly), but when I try to retrieve the Attribution I just get an 
> empty string (or None if there is no attribution for the layer.)  I 
> was expecting an object with the title, logo URL, and link for the 
> Attribution.
>
> Digging into the code a bit I see that Attribution is parsed in 
> exactly the same way as Name and Title, so it will always be a 
> string.  Would it be reasonable to change this to an object or 
> dictionary with the fields I mentioned above?
>
> I would be happy to put together a patch if there's interest.
>
> -- 
> David Winslow
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/

Perhaps I am doing something wrong, but the test suite in trunk doesn't 
seem to pass as-is.  Is this the correct way to be running it?

cd tests/
python runalldoctests.py
# ... lots of text scrolls by
***Test Failed*** 6 failures.

I see an HTTP 401 error and such, so maybe the test suite is just out of 
date?  Is http://svn.gispython.org/svn/gispy/OWSLib/trunk the correct 
repository?

This is on Fedora 12, running python 2.6.  I'm using a virtualenv 
sandbox for the tests.

--
David Winslow
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/