load fonts from geoserver

[ischneider]

using the /fonts REST API endpoint (must include extension, e.g. fonts.json)

see d3ffa55

[bartvde]

@ischneider you mean to find out which fonts are installed on the GeoServer instance?
What would we do with this info? Limit the options given to the user in the combo (if SLD styling is used)? Have several fonts mapping to an entry in the combo and pick one of them? Something else?

[ischneider]

Right, what is available on the GeoServer instance.

While this obviously doesn't help the client-side fonts (which should be limited to family for portability), yes, the idea would be to allow the user to be more specific with fonts - no mapping.

It does imply that the style UI understands whether a layer is client or server-side.

Not critical to address immediately but wanted to capture this.

[bartvde]

Okay right so a combo box filled with all the fonts that GeoServer supports, makes sense.