The real challenge is our community does not have any spare capacity to tackle new feature requests at present. However let's see if this is possible, incase you want to pursue this with a volunteer or service provider...
Initially I think this would be a feature request - we tend to save proposals for strategic choices that impact application stability (and thus need to be voted on.) GeoServer by itself does not interact directly with Shapefiles, we use the GeoTools data access library. GeoTools, does not have any significant support for the shape file metadata file, so ... Q: Do you know if the ESRI the shp,xml file format is documented anywhere, or has been reverse engineered? Q: Does the shape file metadata xml file include the concept of bounds or a description of attributes? Both may of been modified or processed as part of a WFS request ... Options/Ideas: 1. Improve the GeoTools shape file representation <https://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/library/data/shape.html> to communicate if an metadata xml file was present, allowing us to check if is present and blindly include the contents when zipping ... 2. Improve the GeoServer FeatureTypeInfo API, so any format can nominate files to be included when zipping. This would allow other things like a readme, sld, etc... to be packaged up if present. This would be an API change so a proposal would be required. 3. Create a new custom format that does exactly what you want ... -- Jody Garnett On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 07:14, Hornby D. <d...@geodata.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear GeoServer, > > > > I have been directed to this mailing list as a place to propose an > improvement. I had asked this question originally on GIS StackExchange > thinking it was a geonetwork problem but a reply has pointed me to it being > a GeoServer issue. > > > > My question is well documented in this Q&A thread ( > https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/329684/how-to-include-the-metadata-in-a-shapefile-download-from-geonetwork) > so please have a quick look at it to understand the issue. > > > > In summary I would like GeoServer to include the XML (metadata) file along > with the rest of the files that are zipped up for a shapefile. I would > typically document my dataset using ArcCatalog and that creates the > additional XML file holding all the metadata. As I say in my question on > GIS SE we get into a scenario of distributing datasets without any metadata > which is not good! > > > > Ian’s reply seems to suggest a tweak in the source code could resolve > this, but I’m neither a heavy user of github nor a web developer so I’m > hoping this could be something that is added by someone way more competent > than I! > > > > One thing I can think of is the xml file is not a mandatory part of a > shapefile so the tweak to the source code would need to include it if it > existed otherwise carry on zipping it up without failing. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Duncan > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Duncan Hornby > > GIS Developer > > GeoData > > University of Southampton > > Southampton > > SO17 1BJ > > Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2719 > > www.geodata.soton.ac.uk > > ------------------------------------ > > ORCID 0000-0001-6295-1360 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6295-1360> > > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel >
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