First cut of private implementation for geosolutions-it#199

src/main/java/it/geosolutions/geoserver/rest/GeoServerRESTPublisher.java

@@ -3206,4 +3206,75 @@ public void postImport(int i) throws Exception {
         importerManager.postImport(i);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Defines multiple modes of recalculating bounding boxes.
+     * 
+     * @author Carl Schroedl - [email protected]
+     */
+    public enum BBoxRecalculationMode {
+        /**
+         * Do not calculate any fields, regardless of the projection, projection
+         * policy, etc. This might be useful to avoid slow recalculation when 
+         * operating against large datasets.
+         */
+        NONE(""),
+
+        /**
+         * Recalculate the native bounding box, but do not recalculate the 
+         * lat/long bounding box.
+         */
+        NATIVE_BBOX("nativebbox"),
+
+        /**
+         * Recalculate both the native bounding box and the lat/long bounding 
+         * box.
+         */
+        NATIVE_AND_LAT_LON_BBOX("nativebbox,latlonbbox")
+        ;
+
+        private final String paramValue;
+
+        /**
+         * Associates the enum value with a URL query string parameter value
+         * @param paramValue 
+         */
+        BBoxRecalculationMode(String paramValue){
+            this.paramValue = paramValue;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Get the URL param value
+         * @return The query string parameter value
+         */
+        public String getParamValue(){
+            return paramValue;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * 
+     * Recalculate the bounding box for a feature or a type
+     * 
+     * @param type
+     * @param workspace
+     * @param storeName
+     * @param layerName
+     * @param calculationMode
+     * @return true if recalculation succeeded, false otherwise.
+     */
+    private boolean recalculateBBox(StoreType type, String workspace, String storeName, String layerName, BBoxRecalculationMode calculationMode){
+
+        String sUrl = restURL + "/rest/workspaces/" + workspace + "/" +
+                type.getType() +"s/" + storeName + "/" +
+                type.getTypeName() + "/" +
+                layerName + "." + Format.XML.toString() + "?recalculate=" +
+                calculationMode.getParamValue();
+
+        LOGGER.debug("Constructed the following url for bounding box recalculation: ");
+
+        String sendResult = HTTPUtils.put(sUrl, "", "text/plain", gsuser,
+                gspass);
+
+        return sendResult != null;
+    }
 }