Thanks for the comments Charles.
1. I think your layer copy feature is almost what you get with
[republish] since you can change just about all the attributes in the
edit layer dialogs.
2. The feature data for the whole shapefile is made available when
re-publishing the 'master' layer. We use OpenLayers as well, and you can
see this effect without ever leaving Geoserver as follows:
- Upload a sample shapefile with layers R, S, T
- Upload three SLD files one for each layer
- The shapefile is a "layer" itself...so go to the Layer list and "add
new resource"
- Choose the store/test shapefile and [publish again]
- Name the layer R
- Apply the style R
- save.... we now have a new layer R
- Go to the preview Layers area, choose to preview layer R as OpenLayers WMS
- A viewer will appear. Click on the map.
- Feature info *for the whole shape file* will be presented...not just
the data for the styled layer.
This would obviously be the case because at no point did I specify that
the data should be limited to the single layer within the "master"
shapefile.... and this is my point/query: how *should* this process be done?
I can't see how the restful cURL addresses this issue. Even if it will
automatically create a new layer for each layer in a shapefile (and
limit the data to that layer), I can't see how we associate the SLD
file, or assign layer-specific metadata to each layer.
John Brisbin
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On 7/09/2011 10:28 PM, Charles Galpin wrote:
I haven't used the rest api but that sounds like what you want.
However I wanted to mention two things.
1. I'd be interested in seeing a "layer copy" feature to be able to
quickly setup a new layer that was very similar to an existing one,
but change some attributes (including store/layer)
2. What viewer are you talking about here? I have only used openlayers
but you should be able to specify the layer you want info for in a get
feature info request.
charles
On Sep 7, 2011, at 2:51 AM, John Brisbin wrote:
Note that this "republish" technique is great because I don't have to
re-upload the shapefile data each time...but 'republish' includes the
entire dataset (naturally). So when we look at the map in a viewer and
click for feature info, what gets returned is the entire dataset, not
just the specific layer that has been styled.
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