Recalculate Feature Type Bounding Boxes

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This issue addresses a post in Google Groups:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/geoserver-manager-devs/xmUQ9VgI8_8/ju7k7cATty0J

According to @marcjansen:

there is currently no way of issuing a RESTful request
through geoserver-managers
(https://github.com/geosolutions-it/geoserver-manager) public methods to
recalculate a FeatureTypes native and projected BBOX

Geoserver offers the interface (see e.g.
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/rest/api/featuretypes.html#recalculate)
and it is working as expected through a curl call like e.g.

     curl -i -H 'Content-type: text/xml' \ 
         -d 
'<featureType><name>myfeaturetype</name><enabled>true</enabled></featureType>'\ 
         -X PUT \ 
http://user:passwd@url/to/geoserver/rest/workspaces/<ws>/datastores/<ds>featuretypes/myfeaturetype.xml?recalculate=nativebbox

enhance the GeoServerRESTPublisher to have
such method. with ... sth. that looks like below:

public boolean recalculateFeatureTypeBBox(RESTFeatureType ft, 
BboxRecalculationMode calculationMode) { 
   // implementation 
} 

where BboxRecalculationMode is a public enum of the allowed modes

According to @ccancellieri:

Put the Enum as public enum into the GeoServerRESTPublisher (to keep things aligned with others enums) and call the method:

private recalculateBBox(StoreType type, String workspace, String storeName, String layerName, BboxRecalculationMode calculationMode){
 // take a look here to see an example of how to build the URL
// https://github.com/geosolutions-it/geoserver-manager/blob/master/src/main/java/it/geosolutions/geoserver/rest/GeoServerRESTPublisher.java#L2059
}

Then add also public wrappers:

public recalculateFeatureTypeBBox(String workspace, String storeName, String layerName, BboxRecalculationMode calculationMode){
 return  recalculateBBox(StoreType.DATASTORES, workspace, storeName, layerName, calculationMode);
}

public recalculateCoverageBBox(String workspace, String storeName, String layerName, BboxRecalculationMode calculationMode){
// this is not very well documented but should work in the same way of the featureType:
// example
// http://localhost:8081/geoserver/rest/workspaces/WORKSPACE/coveragestores/STORENAME/coverages/LAYERNAME.xml
//  so simply call the 
 return  recalculateBBox(StoreType.COVERAGESTORES, workspace, storeName, layerName, calculationMode);
}

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Which branch should I branch off of? master? 1.7.x?

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@ccancellieri could you recommend a place to test such a method?

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What versions of GeoServer do you recommend testing against? I tried running the integration tests against a local install of 2.8.5 war running in tomcat with the following env vars:

gsmgr_resttest=true
gsmgr_resturl=http://localhost:8080/geoserver/

All the setup method calls in GeoserverRESTTest failed on line 145 with "GeoServer version (-1) does not match the desired one (2.8)" When I hit http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/about/version.xml directly with a browser I get the following response:

<about/>

When I step through a test I see the setup code trying to parse a version out of the same empty about element.