If multi threaded rendering is enabled adding a WCS Layer makes multiple GetCoverage calls

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Author Name: William Valencia (William Valencia)
Original Redmine Issue: 16823
Affected QGIS version: 2.18.9
Redmine category:web_services_clients/wcs

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I have a WCS Server and I use QGIS to add a WCS Layer from my WCS server. I noticed there is 1 GetCapabilities call, 1 DescribeCoverage call, and 4 GetCoverage calls that QGIS requests from my server for adding a single layer. This seems excessive. Shouldn't there be only 1 GetCoverage call?

This is running 2.18.9 QGIS on OSX.

QGIS version
2.18.9
QGIS code branch
Release 2.18
Compiled against Qt
4.8.6
Running against Qt
4.8.6
Compiled against GDAL/OGR
2.1.3
Running against GDAL/OGR
2.1.2
Compiled against GEOS
3.6.1-CAPI-1.10.1
Running against GEOS
3.5.1-CAPI-1.9.1 r4246
PostgreSQL Client Version
9.3.4
SpatiaLite Version
4.3.0a
QWT Version
6.1.3
PROJ.4 Version
492

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Author Name: William Valencia (William Valencia)

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I noticed something weird with QGIS. So when making an "Add WCS Layer" request with QGIS, I noticed that (After initial GetCapabilities and DescribeCoverage), multiple redundant calls to my WCS Server are made. The actual "Add" Button makes 12 calls to EGI. It calls 1 GetCapabilities, 1 DescribeCoverage, 4 GetCoverage and then repeats the last 6 calls for a total of 12 calls. I am unsure why QGIS makes 4 GetCoverage calls in the first place, then it repeats the last 6 calls.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Would you mind asking in the developers mailing list of this is expected or not? thanks.

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• priority_id was changed from High to Normal
• category_id was changed from Actions to Web Services clients/WCS
• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: William Valencia (William Valencia)

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I asked the developers mailing list and included their response below. Looks like the extra 6 repeated calls are definitely a bug with multi threaded rendering. The multiple (4) GetCoverage calls may or may not be needed any more as well.

Hi William

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 8:29 AM, William Valencia
william.m.valencia@nasa.gov wrote:

I noticed something weird with QGIS. So when making an "Add WCS Layer"
request with QGIS, I noticed that (After initial GetCapabilities and
DescribeCoverage), multiple redundant calls to my WCS Server are made. The
actual "Add" Button makes 12 calls to my WCS Server. It calls 1
GetCapabilities, 1 DescribeCoverage, 4 GetCoverage and then repeats the last
6 calls for a total of 12 calls. I am unsure why QGIS makes 4 GetCoverage
calls in the first place, let alone the repeated last 6 calls for the total
of 12 calls. Anyone know why QGIS is doing this?

I am not the author of the WCS provider, but I have some leads... the
extra GetCoverage calls are used for detection of some server
behaviors, from the code comments it looks like at some point there
were incompatibilities among WCS server implementations that lead to
addition of these checks to work around the incompatibilities. Not
sure if these checks are still necessary with the current versions of
map servers.

For the repeated calls, this a side-effect of introduction of
multi-threaded rendering since QGIS 2.4. WCS provider get cloned for
use in worker thread, but the cloning is sub-optimal - it does not
pass the downloaded capabilities, so cloned provider has to fetch that
again. It should not be hard to fix (I have fixed that for WMS in the
initial work, but WCS provider had low priority at the time).

Regards
Martin

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• subject was changed from Adding a WCS Layer makes multiple (4) GetCoverage calls. to If multi threaded rendering is enabled adding a WCS Layer makes multiple GetCoverage calls
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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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