Hi Patrick, That is a good point; working with curl actually helped. The following works:
curl \ http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/workspace_name/datastores/datastore_name/featuretypes \ --header 'content-type: application/xml' \ --user user:password \ --data \ '<featureType>\ <name>pub_layer</name>\ <nativeName>layer</nativeName>\ <title>LAYER</title>\ </featureType>' It is not clear in the documentation what the <name> and <nativeName> tags represent. Using the above data in the post Geoserver interprets <nativeName>layer</nativeName> as the table which is used in the PostGIS database therefore the value within the tags should be the same as the table name in PostGIS. If the <nativeName>layer</nativeName> is not used in the POST payload then Geoserver expects the <name></name> to include a value which is the same as the table name in the PostGIS database which in my original post it wasn't. Going back to Python the right answer to my question is the following: import requests from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth def create_feature_type(layer_name,store_name,workspace_name,table_name,user,password): headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/xml'} url = 'http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/{0}/datastores/{1}/featuretypes'.format(workspace_name,store_name) post_data = """<featureType>"""\ +"""<name>{}</name>""".format(layer_name)\ +"""<nativeName>{}</nativeName>""".format(table_name)\ +"""<title>{}</title>""".format(table_name.upper())\ +"""</featureType>""" r = requests.post(url,headers=headers,auth=HTTPBasicAuth(user,password),data=post_data) return r.status_code def main(): #Assumes workspace and data store have been created before running the following function and #a table named 'table_name' is located into the database. create_feature_type('pub_table_name','test_store','test_workspace','table_name','admin','passwd') if __name__ == "__main__": main() Cheers for your help, D. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Create-layer-REST-API-issues-tp5317197p5317683.html Sent from the GeoServer - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
