fwiw, the tool I'm working on to translate Mapnik config files to GeoServer
SLD + configuration creates datastores and configures featuretypes from
scratch in RESTConfig, using PostGIS and Shapefile backends. I would like
to extract examples for the manual from this code, but for now you can take
a look at
http://github.com/dwins/mapnik2geotools/blob/master/src/main/scala/GeoServer.scala
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OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Mckeane <mckeane.tho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Mr. Scarr,
> > I am faced with the same situation in which I am able to reference a
> > shape file that is not in the geoserver's data directory. However, in
> order
> > to preview the shape file I would have to manually create the layers and
> > publish it for the file from the add a new resource section under layers
> > section of the Geoserver's UI. If the files are uploaded into the data
> > directory the feature types are automatically created. The same applies
> for
> > geotiff's that are refernced externally using the external.geotiff?
> > examples. Since shapefiles in geoserver does not support external.shp (I
> was
> > told).
> >
> > If there is any further information that could help me solve this problem
> > and applying this patch please could you relay such.
> > Thank you in advance
>
> As far as I know it's working as advertised: when you manually create a
> feature
> type by PUT you also have to manually create the layer.
> Uploading the shapefile is probably giving the two in one shot as a
> convenience
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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