[Geoserver-users] curl not creating the desired datastore

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1

Hi guys,

I am implementing the following code to upload an existing shapefile as per the documentation,

curl -u admin:geoserver -XPUT -H ‘Content-type: text/plain’ -d ‘file:./shapefile/csv_shp/Stemmodontia_reticulata.shp’ http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/opengeo/datastores/Stemmodontia_reticulata/Stemmodontia_reticulata.shp

But I am getting following error,

No such datastore: opengeo,Stemmodontia_reticulata

The document says that the curl code will create the datastore then why am I getting this error?

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Thanks & Regards
Smaran Harihar

2

Did you try using an absolute path? GeoServer needs to be able to find the
group of files that make up the Shp, but your path is relative to your pwd
in the shell.

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Thanks for the reply cheesy.

I executed the following code,

curl -u admin:geoserver -XPUT -H ‘Content-type: text/plain’ \ >
-d ‘file:///var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp/’ \ > “http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/acme/datastores/csvQshp/external.shp?configure=all”

I am getting this error,
Error persisting DataStoreInfoImpl[csvQshp] to /usr/share/opengeo-suite-data/geoserver_data/workspaces/acme/csvQshp/datastore.xml

The strange thing is that the datastore is created but the shapefiles are missing. When you said the absolute path did u mean,

-d ‘file:///var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp/’ \ >

Thanks,
Smaran

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:24 PM, cheesybiscuits <thomaschristian@anonymised.com4…> wrote:

Did you try using an absolute path? GeoServer needs to be able to find the
group of files that make up the Shp, but your path is relative to your pwd
in the shell.

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Yes I would expect your new command to work fine but there are a few possible
explanations for why it might fail.

1) the target of your new path is different to your original relative path -
I assume /var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp/ does actually contain shapefiles
2) you might be seeing permissions issues where Tomcat (or whatever your
container is) can't read the data. If safe to do so you might want to verify
this by opening up privileges, e.g. something like chmod -R 0744
/var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp
3) as the datastore is created I assume there are no permissions issues with
Tomcat / whatever writing to the target directory

If you're still having trouble I would test by identifying a single
shapefile, rather than the directory

curl -u admin:geoserver -XPUT -H 'Content-type: text/plain' -d
'file:///var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp/someshape.shp'
"http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/acme/datastores/csvQshp/external.shp?configure=all&quot;

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Ok cheesy,

I gave up on uploading the individual shapefile and tried to upload a zipped shapefile and still I am not able to succeed.

I am implementing the following code to upload a zipped shapefile as per the documentation,

curl -u admi PUT ‘Content-type: application/zip’ --data-binary @/var/www/geo/shapefile/zip/Poa_horridula.zip http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/acme/datastores/Poa_horridula/Poa_horridula.zip

But I am getting following error,

curl: (6) Couldn’t resolve host ‘Content-type’

No such datastore: acme,Poa_horridula

The document says that the curl code will create the datastore then why am I getting this error?

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks,
Smaran

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:26 PM, cheesybiscuits <thomaschristian@anonymised.com.84…> wrote:

Yes I would expect your new command to work fine but there are a few possible
explanations for why it might fail.

  1. the target of your new path is different to your original relative path -
    I assume /var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp/ does actually contain shapefiles
  2. you might be seeing permissions issues where Tomcat (or whatever your
    container is) can’t read the data. If safe to do so you might want to verify
    this by opening up privileges, e.g. something like chmod -R 0744
    /var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp
  3. as the datastore is created I assume there are no permissions issues with
    Tomcat / whatever writing to the target directory

If you’re still having trouble I would test by identifying a single
shapefile, rather than the directory

curl -u admin:geoserver -XPUT -H ‘Content-type: text/plain’ -d

‘file:///var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp/someshape.shp’
“http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/acme/datastores/csvQshp/external.shp?configure=all”

6

Ok so I changed a bit more of my code,

curl -u admin:geoserver -v -XPUT -H ‘Content-type: application/zip’ --data-binary ‘/var/www/geo/shapefile/zip/Poa_horridula.zip’ http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/acme/datastores/newtest/file.shp

And now the error is that the file cannot be unzipped.

  • About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0)
  • Trying ::1… connected
  • Server auth using Basic with user ‘admin’

PUT /geoserver/rest/workspaces/acme/datastores/newtest/file.shp HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46Z2Vvc2VydmVy
User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
Host: localhost:8080
Accept: /
Content-type: application/zip
Content-Length: 44

  • upload completely sent off: 44out of 44 bytes
    < HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
    < Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
    < Content-Type: text/plain
    < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    < Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:12:47 GMT
    < Connection: close
    <
  • Closing connection #0
    Error occured unzipping file:error in opening zip file

Any idea why it is unable to unzip it?

Thanks,
Smaran

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Smaran Harihar <smaran.harihar@anonymised.com> wrote:

Ok cheesy,

I gave up on uploading the individual shapefile and tried to upload a zipped shapefile and still I am not able to succeed.

I am implementing the following code to upload a zipped shapefile as per the documentation,

curl -u admi PUT ‘Content-type: application/zip’ --data-binary @/var/www/geo/shapefile/zip/Poa_horridula.zip http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/acme/datastores/Poa_horridula/Poa_horridula.zip

But I am getting following error,

curl: (6) Couldn’t resolve host ‘Content-type’

No such datastore: acme,Poa_horridula

The document says that the curl code will create the datastore then why am I getting this error?

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks,
Smaran

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:26 PM, cheesybiscuits <thomaschristian@anonymised.com> wrote:

Yes I would expect your new command to work fine but there are a few possible
explanations for why it might fail.

  1. the target of your new path is different to your original relative path -
    I assume /var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp/ does actually contain shapefiles
  2. you might be seeing permissions issues where Tomcat (or whatever your
    container is) can’t read the data. If safe to do so you might want to verify
    this by opening up privileges, e.g. something like chmod -R 0744
    /var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp
  3. as the datastore is created I assume there are no permissions issues with
    Tomcat / whatever writing to the target directory

If you’re still having trouble I would test by identifying a single
shapefile, rather than the directory

curl -u admin:geoserver -XPUT -H ‘Content-type: text/plain’ -d

‘file:///var/www/geo/shapefile/csvQshp/someshape.shp’
“http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/acme/datastores/csvQshp/external.shp?configure=all”

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Thanks & Regards
Smaran Harihar

7

Ok guys I am almost there,

curl -u admin:geoserver -v -XPUT -H ‘Content-type: application/zip’ --data-binary @/var/www/geo/shapefile/zip/Poa_horridula.zip http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/acme/datastores/Poa/file.shp

This code finally helped me to get the shapefile in but it seems that the cURL does not publish it. Is that correct? Do I have to manually publish the shapefiles?

Thanks,
Smaran