I'd go for the catalog builder (most central place, widely used) and use
EPSG:404000 (aka lack of CRS)

Cheers
Andrea

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Stefano Costa <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear developers,
> a few days ago I opened GEOS-7216: WFS GetCapabilities throws NPE if
> published layer has no geometry
> <https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-7216>.
>
> As I mentioned in the issue description, there may be situations when a
> user might legitimately want to publish a geometryless layer (e.g. the
> GeoSciML's GeologicEvent feature type). This thread
> <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Publish-PostGIS-data-without-Geometry-td5211377.html>
> also confirms that should be possible to do so.
>
> Now, if one tries to publish a geometryless layer through the web UI,
> nothing can go wrong, as the form validation forces the user to define at
> least a declared SRS and a lat/lon bounding box.
> However, through the REST API it is possible to mess things up and publish
> a layer with no SRS and no lat/lon bounding box, which results in the NPE I
> reported in the issue.
>
> The simplest fix I can come up with is to set the declared SRS to a
> default value (EPSG:4326? EPSG:404000?) if none was found; basically this
> means adding an else block to this if statement in
> org.geoserver.catalog.CatalogBuilder:
>
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/c8013c078da0c86b9b1e29913a75fabb7f8f9c9a/src/main/src/main/java/org/geoserver/catalog/CatalogBuilder.java#L653
>
> This is enough to ensure that a lat/lon bbox will be computed and so the
> NPE will not be thrown anymore.
>
> An alternative could be to apply the same logic not in CatalogBuilder
> (gs-main module), but in the REST resources handling feature
> types, org.geoserver.catalog.rest.FeatureTypeResource
> and org.geoserver.catalog.rest.DataStoreFileResource (gs-restconfig module).
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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> Best regards,
> Stefano Costa
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