[Geoserver-users] GetFeature schema customization outputformat comparison

Ravi_Pavuluri · February 28, 2011, 6:14pm

Hi,

I am using a basic WFS on Geoserver(2.0.2)and wanted to limit the attributes through “schema customization” to be shown in getfeature. I was following the 2.0.2 documentation and was not completely able to do that.

As per
http://docs.geoserver.org/2.0.2/user/services/wfs/schemamapping.html#schema-customization
“copy schema.xsd $GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR/featureTypes/_myDataset/”

There is no featureTypes folder in geoserver data directory which contains coverages,data,demo,gwc etc folders . Looks like the documentation was outdated for this page.

I looked at 2.1.x user manual
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/services/wfs/schemamapping.html#schema-customization
“copy schema.xsd $GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR/workspaces///myDataset/”

The above directory structure exists in 2.0.2 and I was succesfully able to limit the attributes in the describefeaturetype call.

But when I tried to use GetFeature for a given typeName with

WFS 1.1.0 and GML2/GML3 outputformat
Customized list of attributes is populated…
Logs:No Errors
WFS 1.1.0 and shape-zip outputformat
The entire list of attributes is populated…
Logs:No Errors

Is this an expected behavior with different output formats? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ravi.

Andrea_Aime4 · February 28, 2011, 8:35pm

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Ravi Pavuluri <ravitheja@anonymised.com142…> wrote:

Hi,

I am using a basic WFS on Geoserver(2.0.2)and wanted to limit the attributes through “schema customization” to be shown in getfeature. I was following the 2.0.2 documentation and was not completely able to do that.

As per
http://docs.geoserver.org/2.0.2/user/services/wfs/schemamapping.html#schema-customization
“copy schema.xsd $GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR/featureTypes/_myDataset/”

There is no featureTypes folder in geoserver data directory which contains coverages,data,demo,gwc etc folders . Looks like the documentation was outdated for this page.

I looked at 2.1.x user manual
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/services/wfs/schemamapping.html#schema-customization
“copy schema.xsd $GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR/workspaces///myDataset/”

The above directory structure exists in 2.0.2 and I was succesfully able to limit the attributes in the describefeaturetype call.

But when I tried to use GetFeature for a given typeName with

WFS 1.1.0 and GML2/GML3 outputformat
Customized list of attributes is populated…
Logs:No Errors

WFS 1.1.0 and shape-zip outputformat
The entire list of attributes is populated…
Logs:No Errors

Is this an expected behavior with different output formats? Any suggestions?

The system to limit the attributes was really just designed to work for the GML based output formats.
That said, the mechanism should actually be working for shapefiles too, so there might be a bug
at work.

Please report a but report on jira.codehaus.org, if possible providing a ready made customization
of the topp:states layer and the request to make it fail so that we can quickly reproduce it
when trying to fix it (various developers have time to fix community reported issues only in
their spare time, so having an easy to reproduce issue is key to get a bug fixed)

Cheers
Andrea

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Ravi_Pavuluri · March 1, 2011, 1:39pm

Thanks Andrea,

I will provide bug report on my workflow with topp:states.