[ckan-dev] Spatial extension and deprecated Search API at v2

Wed Feb 20 09:32:34 UTC 2013

> Hearing that the search API is going to be deprecated brought up a
> question I have for the folks working on the spatial extension.
> 
> As I understand, the spatial search functionality is implemented through
> the search API. If that will be deprecated at 2.0, will the spatial
> extension be adjusted to add spatial query functionality to the Action
> API? My project is working with the spatial extension and if we can
> future-proof our searches, we'd like to jump on it sooner rather than later.

I think that if the legacy Search API supported it, then it should
already be supported by the package_search and resource_search actions
of the Action API. If not, then it should probably be added. I think
Adria or Nigel should be able to confirm the situation