[Geoserver-users] results from testing the 1.6RC

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Hi all,

I've installed and tested the RC 1.6 with nearly the whole capabilities of geoservers-wms/wfs output based on various data and the most things works fine !
Especially the new possibility to group wms layers is very interesting.
Great Work !

But these issues I found out :
georss output from an Oracle-Database produces an error
(for complete log see appendix below-rss_ora_log)

and the second is, that wms output with sld including an external graphic will not displayed.
In version 1.5.4 this worked fine yet.
->
2007-11-23 08:27:17,453 ERROR [geotools.rendering] - Argument "value" should not be null.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument "value" should not be null.
<-
(see wms_sld_log too and sld below)

Another question on georss :
If I view the sourcecode of the rss generated by geoserver, it looks like it uses the W3C Basic Geo Vocabulary ?
On the site georss.org this method is marked as deprecated.
Is there a specific reason for using W3C Geo ?

greets
Ronald

used SLD :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<StyledLayerDescriptor version="1.0.0"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/sld StyledLayerDescriptor.xsd"
    xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/sld&quot;
    xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc&quot;
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink&quot;
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;&gt;

  <NamedLayer>
    <Name>Default Point</Name>
    <UserStyle>
      
      <Title>Baustelle</Title>
      <Abstract>Symbol für Straßenbaustelle-Mann mit Schaufel</Abstract>

      <FeatureTypeStyle>
        <Rule>
          <Name>Rule 1</Name>
          <Title>example</Title>
          <Abstract>Baustellensymbol 20px</Abstract>

          <PointSymbolizer>
            <Graphic>
            <ExternalGraphic>
                <OnlineResource
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink&quot;
    xlink:type="simple"
    xlink:href="baustelle.png"/>
                <Format>image/png</Format>
            </ExternalGraphic>
            <Size>20</Size>
      </Graphic>
    </PointSymbolizer>
        </Rule>

        </FeatureTypeStyle>
    </UserStyle>
  </NamedLayer>
</StyledLayerDescriptor>

rss_ora_log (9.9 KB)

wms_sld_log (5.21 KB)

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Ronald Woita ha scritto:

Hi all,

I've installed and tested the RC 1.6 with nearly the whole capabilities of geoservers-wms/wfs output based on various data and the most things works fine !
Especially the new possibility to group wms layers is very interesting.
Great Work !

But these issues I found out :
georss output from an Oracle-Database produces an error
(for complete log see appendix below-rss_ora_log)

and the second is, that wms output with sld including an external graphic will not displayed.
In version 1.5.4 this worked fine yet.
->
2007-11-23 08:27:17,453 ERROR [geotools.rendering] - Argument "value" should not be null.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument "value" should not be null.
<-
(see wms_sld_log too and sld below)

Thanks for reporting these, I'll have a look at them as soon as I find one minute to test them out.

Another question on georss :
If I view the sourcecode of the rss generated by geoserver, it looks like it uses the W3C Basic Geo Vocabulary ?
On the site georss.org this method is marked as deprecated.
Is there a specific reason for using W3C Geo ?

GeoRSS output has been created early during the summer, at that time
I think the specification you're talking about was not deprecated,
moreover I think it's the format that both Google Maps, Virtual Earth
and Yahoo Maps understand.

Do you know if the "big guys" understand any of the other GeoRSS
variants these days?
In any case, we need some volounteer to tackle this one, as far
as I know the core developers are all pretty much packed with work
up to January (maybe more).

Cheers
Andrea