manunixx@anonymised.com wrote:
Hi!
I read a reply message that you sent to this forum few time ago.. it's about grouping layer in geoserver.
I'm quite confused about this feature, maybe you may halp me ..Is geoserver able to take differents shape files and merge them for delivering a unique resulting layer to release as a single WMS?
if not, what does the group layer functionality? the documentation about that is very poor, and i didn't understand how proper use this feature. in particular, whom do the Base Map Layers refers to?
Apologies, we should document this a bit better. Brent, could you add this to the FAQ? And clean up the two entries a bit?
There are two things going on
1) WMS capabilities layer grouping
2) Base Map Layer return of features.
The first is purely for the capabilities document - the nesting of layers is a feature of WMS, and it returns embedded layers based on the structure you return.
The second is used in the response, so if I set a base map layer for 'roads,parks,water', then it will return all three in one request.
These two implementations arose separately, and probably should be combined. I'm not sure that it's in the spec, but it seems at least a pseudo-standards to have the name of a group return all sub-layers in the group.
So it sounds like you want the base map layer - to allow one wms request - 'basemap', return more than one configured shapefile layer.
We should probably open a feature request for this, schedule for 1.4.1 or something.
best regards,
Chris
I 'll really do appreciate a little help, thanks!
Emanuele.!DSPAM:1003,4554552b191341804284693!
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