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Should we provide configuration for required tiling parameters?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
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20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript

Research direction

Start by reviewing the render extension and example collections containing datetime, variable, and collection_concept_id. Compare the requirements of titiler-cmr and titiler-pgstac, then resolve whether parameters and tiler endpoints belong in the extension. Done means the project has an agreed configuration shape and documented behavior.

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Description

There are query parameters that tiling backends expect or accept but which aren’t specified in the collection document. In the example collections so far, we have datetime, variable or collection_concept_id.

There is no way for a client to tell, which of these parameters need to be passed to the tiler in addition to those specified in the render extension. For example, datetime can be a single date or a range, depending on the tiler. variable and concept_id are only required for titiler-cmr implementations but not for titiler-pgstac.

Should these parameters be advertised the render extension? There could be an addition block called parameters that indicates what parameters the tile expects and accepts in addition to those defined in the each render object.

{
  "renders": {
    "parameters": {
      "variable": {
        "type": "string",
        "required": true
      },
      "concept_id": {
        "type": "string",
        "required": true
      },
      "datetime": {
        "type": "datetime",
        "required": true,
        "extent": "range"
      }
    }
  }
}

Likewise, if these parameters are tiler-specific, should the tiler endpoint be advertised in the render extension as well?

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