Serve styles

[artyomb]

Is it possible to configure support for serving static files or Mapbox-style JSON files using a configuration file?

static:
 - /path/to/static_dir

or

styles:
 - /path/to/styles_dir

Additionally, when serving Mapbox-style JSON files specifically, could the system automatically add related fonts, sprites, and sources to the file?

[CommanderStorm]

when serving Mapbox-style JSON files specifically, could the system automatically add related fonts, sprites, and sources to the file?

This part is a bit unclear, what do you mean by this specifically?

And yes, adding styles would defintively be required to implement this feature:

• Add server-side raster tile rendering #978

[artyomb]

The following sections could be added automatically:

mapbox_style.json:

...
"glyphs": ".../fonts/{fontstack}/{range}.pbf",
"sprite": ".../sprites",
...
"sources": [
    "source_name": {
      "type": "vector",
      "url": "/tiles/.../tiles.json"
    },
]

[CommanderStorm]

I don't think that this would work as you intended. We would need to

• (solvable) pick source_name dependent on the stlyes usage
• decide if the user wants sdf or regular sprites
• decide which vector/sprite source a user needs to display the map they want

In particular because of the last issue, we would need to do the wrong kind of magic. I.e. the kind which does unintended things easily and is hard to debug our users).
=> I think our users will be much less confused without automatically adding this information

[artyomb]

This feature could be optional. Styles are typically served as static files, but they may also support templating, such as:

...
"glyphs": "{{ .Fonts }}",
"sprite": "{{ .SdfSprites.base }}",
...
"sources": [
  {{range .Sources}}
    "{{.Name}}": {
      "type": "vector",
      "url": "{{.TileJson}}"
    },
  {{end}}
]