Supporting bulk creation of features in Part 4

[ThorodanBrom]

Hello,

I would like to ask if bulk creation of features using the POST method is being/was considered. STAC Item Transactions has support for this for STAC Items.

In the EDR Part 2: Publish-Subscribe Workflow specification document, figure 1 mentions using the Part 4 Features spec to add/update new items into an OGC API server. We have use cases where multiple features are generated/recorded at a single instant and here, being able to do a bulk creation of features with the Part 4 APIs would be more easier (and more efficient from a database perspective) than calling the create API multiple times for each feature.

Apologies in case this has already been discussed - I could not find the relevant issue on GitHub. Feel free to close this if that's the case.

Thank you!

[pvretano]

@ThorodanBrom to answer your question directly ... yes, of course! ;)

A lot of the work done on CRUD and complex atomic/batch transactions was based on a note that I wrote a while back that you can see here.

We are just finishing up the CRUD (i.e. simple transactions) stuff with Part 4 and Part 5.

Complex transactions with batch or atomic semantics is in the queue to be tackled in a subsequence part.

[ThorodanBrom]

@pvretano thanks for the clarification. The atomic and batch sematics will be useful for implementers as well as clients - I remember that we had a little trouble while implementing the STAC Transaction APIs because it was open-ended in this regard.