Hi there, it turned out that Geoserver transparently modifies styles provided in SLD format when these are PUTted or POSTed through the REST API.
Actually, we are using version 2.3.5 on Debian 6 64 Bit. Remark: I did not find any way to get a JIRA account for filing this bug, so I guess sending it to the mailing list is the recommended way. In fact the styles are modified in a way, so that they are no longer compatible or "visually equal" to the style that was loaded up through the REST API. It seems that both the PUT and POST operations for Styles (described at http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/rest/api/styles.html) actually parse and rewrite the provided SLDs with an XML parser, which is neither documented nor appropriate (for my mind). These are the most obvious modifications: 1. CDATA sections are removed. This is the most annoying problem, which makes the REST API nearly useless for styles, since CDATA sections are the recommended way for including line breaks in labels and are also used for formatting legend texts. 2. Several <ogc:Function name="strConcat"> function calls are inserted. My original <Label>...</Label> block looked looks this: <Label> <ogc:PropertyName>cbl___b</ogc:PropertyName><![CDATA[ ]]> <ogc:Function name="numberFormat"> <ogc:Literal>#,###</ogc:Literal> <ogc:PropertyName>nakk__e</ogc:PropertyName> </ogc:Function> </Label> After loading up with the REST API, the block looks like this: <sld:Label> <ogc:Function name="strConcat"> <ogc:Function name="strConcat"> <ogc:Function name="strConcat"> <ogc:PropertyName>cbl___b</ogc:PropertyName> <ogc:Literal> </ogc:Literal> </ogc:Function> <ogc:Literal> </ogc:Literal> </ogc:Function> <ogc:Function name="numberFormat"> <ogc:Literal>#,###.0</ogc:Literal> <ogc:PropertyName>nakk__e</ogc:PropertyName> </ogc:Function> </ogc:Function> </sld:Label> For my mind, there is too much undocumented magic in this process. 3. The modified SLD uses explicit XML namespaces for all tags and replaces the namespace declarations of the root element with (likely) hardcoded declarations. -- Regards Carsten Klein mail: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DataGis GmbH 2 & 3 dimensional Information Processing and Digital Cartography Johann-Strauß-Str. 26 70794 Filderstadt Germany tel: +(49) 7158 940267 fax: +(49) 7158 940268 web: www.datagis.com mail: [email protected] Management: Dr. Gunter Hahn, Markus Ruess, Carsten Klein Entry in the commercial register of Germany: HRB 225945 at the local court of Stuttgart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
