[Geoserver-devel] RESTful delete of a shapefile

GeoServer GeoServer Developer
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David or other RESTful API enthusiasts,

I’m trying to DELETE a shapfile which I’ve successfully PUT with:

curl -Tbundle.zip http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/folders/foo/file.shp

Since delete seems to be implemented:
(http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/RESTful+Configuration+API)

I was hoping I could do an HTTP delete at the same URL but that doesn’t work.

Looking at DataStoreFileResource: ( http://fisheye.codehaus.org/browse/geoserver/trunk/geoserver/community/RESTConfig/src/main/java/org/geoserver/restconfig/DataStoreFileResource.java?r=8750)

It doesn’t have an allowDelete() method.

Is it possible to delete a shapefile via the RESTful API?

Thanks,

Sam

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I’m trying to do a RESTful DELETE of a shapefile which I’ve successfully PUT with:

curl -Tbundle.zip http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/folders/foo/file.shp

Since delete seems to be implemented:
(http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/RESTful+Configuration+API)

I was hoping I could do an HTTP delete at the same URL but that doesn’t work.

Looking at DataStoreFileResource: ( http://fisheye.codehaus.org/browse/geoserver/trunk/geoserver/community/RESTConfig/src/main/java/org/geoserver/restconfig/DataStoreFileResource.java?r=8750)

It doesn’t have an allowDelete() method.

Is it possible to delete a shapefile via the RESTful API?

Thanks,

Sam

3

Hi Sam,

I think this is a failing of the documentation rather than the code. Deleting shapefiles is not implemented; however, you can hide a shapefile by DELETE'ing its configuration. Something like:
curl -XDELETE http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/folders/foo

This leaves the shapefile on disk, but removes it from the GeoServer configuration so that it isn't served. I don't think excluding DELETE was an explicit design decision, so adding that in should be fine. I'll take a look sometime soon, but if you want to try and put together a patch I'm happy to advise ('soon' may be relative in this particular case).

Hope this helps,
David Winslow

Sam Brodkin wrote:

I'm trying to do a RESTful DELETE of a shapefile which I've successfully PUT with:

curl -Tbundle.zip http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/folders/foo/file.shp

Since delete seems to be implemented:
(http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/RESTful+Configuration+API)

I was hoping I could do an HTTP delete at the same URL but that doesn't work.

Looking at DataStoreFileResource: ( http://fisheye.codehaus.org/browse/geoserver/trunk/geoserver/community/RESTConfig/src/main/java/org/geoserver/restconfig/DataStoreFileResource.java?r=8750)

It doesn't have an allowDelete() method.

Is it possible to delete a shapefile via the RESTful API?

Thanks,

Sam
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