Operations Metadata #3
Description
INSPIRE requires the provision of operations metadata:
The Operations metadata parameter provides metadata about the operations implemented by the Download Service. It shall at least provide a description of each operation, including as a minimum a description of the data exchanged and the network address.
In classic OWS services, there is an explicit section ows:OperationsMetadata listing all requests supported by the service (i.e. GetCapabilities, GetFeature)
In OGC API, the /api page provides this information
I see 2 ways forward here (but would be very thankful for good ideas!):
- dump a half-assed Open-API doc for STA somewhere and reference this. I know that there are some attempts out there. A true version doesn't work because of the flexibility of STA, there are so many options for accessing via the data model graph that the API doc would become infinite. However, in order to get past this level of bureaucratic BS, I'd be fine with a trivialized version (which I believe already exists)
- claim that our "operations" are actually HTTP GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, set up some simple descriptions for STA behavior on each