[Geoserver-devel] [jira] (GEOS-5694) Shapefile export to use correct Field Format

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Jonathan Moules created ImprovementGEOS-5694
Shapefile export to use correct Field Format

Issue Type:

ImprovementImprovement

Affects Versions:

2.3-RC1

Assignee:

Andrea Aime

Components:

WFS

Created:

07/Mar/13 5:58 AM

Description:

Currently GeoServer uses fixed field formats (particularly char column width) for the DBF file in shapefiles it exports. This can result massively over-sized shapefiles for datasets that have many rows.

This improvement suggestion is to get the field attributes from the original data store (if they exist) and use those for the DBF.

Asked for a couple of times recently on the mailing list:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CA%2BnxMTuMK3m30vNndQC-M%3Dx5tnuYhAQfYqBuNgGu%3DutFj3w%3Dtw%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=geoserver-users

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1362616292079-5038895.post%40n6.nabble.com&forum_name=geoserver-users

Project:

GeoServer

Priority:

MajorMajor

Reporter:

Jonathan Moules
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