On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Geoff Clitheroe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > we have a WFS, provided using GeoServer, for earthquake information in New > Zealand. More details here: > > http://info.geonet.org.nz/display/appdata/Earthquake+Web+Feature+Service > > We plan to add more output to the geonet:quake layer.
When you say more output, you mean more attributes? I guess this is > potential for this being a breaking change for some clients. If I was > changing a REST web service I would usually have a version number in the web > service say for example: > > http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/services/all.json > > versus > > http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/services/2/all.json > > Is this sort of approach (adding a version number into the URL) recommended > with GeoServer and if so how is it best done? WFS does not have a notion of versioned schemas, I guess the easiest thing, if you want to preserve old clients, is to create a new feature type, and maybe use SQL Views to setup a feature type with the old to the clients. Cheers Andrea -- == GeoServer training in Milan, 6th & 7th June 2013! Visit http://geoserver.geo-solutions.it for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
