Thanks for your reply Andrea
I’ve just had a look and I think the same issue is present in the Geoserver demo data without having to make any changes.
The 3 layer groups (tasmania, tiger-ny, spearfish) all seem to be set up in the same way, as far as I can see, as Single layer groups…
Tasmania appears only as a group in the capabilities but tiger-ny and spearfish also list their separate layers as well as having a group entry.
Adding container groups into the mix…
I created a container group and added the Tasmania group to it. This resulted in the Tasmania group appearing under container group and also under the root.
I then created a second container group and added the tiger-ny group to it. This resulted in tiger-ny appearing only under the container group and not in the root, correct behaviour. However all of the components of tiger-ny still show up as individual layers under the root.
Interestingly, if I then go into one of the tiger-ny layers and uncheck the Advertised box so the layer doesn’t show up on it’s own, the tiger-ny group then appears under the root as well as under the group…
Hope this helps with debugging and makes more sense to you than me!
Thanks
Tom
From: andrea.aime@anonymised.com [mailto:andrea.aime@anonymised.com] On Behalf Of Andrea Aime
Sent: 14 November 2013 13:09
To: Thomas Colley; Mauro Bartolomeoli
Cc: GeoServer Mailing List List
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Layer groups in capabilities
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Thomas Colley <it087@anonymised.com…> wrote:
Hi
Should Single layer groups that are added to a Container Tree layer
group still also appear in the root of the capabilities document?
Hmm… don’t think we discussed what should happen when the new layer
tree modes were implemented, but my feeling that it should not appear
One single group that I have set up and then added to a container group
shows up only once in the capabilities, another that I have set up in
the same way appears twice, once in the root and once inside the
container.
Weird. Might be a bug, it would help if you could reproduce the problem
with a vanilla data dir (the default one that ships with GeoServer)
and share steps to reproduce it, or share the data dir itself.
One thing though… which version of GeoServer are you using?
Mauro made some fixes to layer group handling, I believe they only
landed in the 2.4.x series
I’d expect only showing up once to be the correct behaviour but reading
the Geoserver docs suggests that single groups might show up twice?
“In case a layer is included in a any non single group it won’t be
listed anymore in the flat layer list, although it will still be
possible to include the same layer in different layer groups.”
Yes, if you include it in different groups, it will appear multiple times,
one per parent group, but not in the root.
Cheers
Andrea
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