Hey there,
What Andrea writes is true. ArcSDE raster support only exists for certain kinds of stored ArcSDE rasters. Specifically, the following is supported:
Bands | Types
1,3,4 | 8bit unsigned pixels (3 and 4 bands are considered color photos, 1 band are considered grayscale. No colormaps are currently supported)
1 | 32bit real (float)
1 | 1-bit (mask)
However, it sounds like the error message you're getting isn't caused by bad raster data, but rather by a malformed raster URL.
Can you share the URL you're trying? Does it exactly match the format required by the plugin page? What is in the geoserver error log when the error is thrown?
--saul
Message: 4
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:32:35 +0200
From: Andrea Aime <aaime@anonymised.com>
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] About arcsde plugin error!
To: goodness@anonymised.com
Cc: Saul Farber <Saul.Farber@anonymised.com>,
geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID: <487B0F23.1010800@anonymised.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowedgoodness@anonymised.com ha scritto:
Hello!
I'm trying geoserver. I have tried last 3 versions, but none of them connected
to arcsde. By the first I couldn't get that plugin to work (show ArcSde in
dropdown list). Now it is in the drop down list, but I can't connect to
ArcSDE.
I thin I have followed that manual in
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/ArcSDE+DataStore but anyway it doesn't
work. Every time I try it returns me the error Invalid URLfor format
type:'ArcSDE Raster'.As far as I know, support for rasters embedded in ArcSDE is quite limited. I've never tried it out, but I remember other discussions
about this an you should be aware that you first need to setup
a ArcSDE vector datastore, and only after try to use a raster connection
(because that will try and use the same set of SDE connections).
After that, I know only certain image types are supported, but I
don't know of a list.I'm trying to cc the developer that created the raster support,
he should know more.Cheers
Andrea