Hey Chris, thanks for the feedback, glad that it worked. The code I pointed you at has a TODO which says push to GeoExt ;-)
Pull requests are always welcome of course. Best regards, Bart -- Bart van den Eijnden OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. On Oct 24, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Christopher Eykamp <christopher.eyk...@tudor.lu> wrote: > Hi Bart, > > Thank you -- this code does exactly what I was looking for. > > I do find it strange that GeoExt does not do this by default, as it appears > to have the parsing code already built in, and the amount of extra processing > involved would be minimal. > > In any case, my immediate problem is solved, so thank you for your help! > > Chris > > > > > On 10/23/2012 11:46 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the OpenLayers WFS GetCapabilities parser provides this info, but the GeoExt >> reader is only interested in the feature types, not the service metadata. >> >> You can do a similar thing as what is done here: >> >> https://github.com/opengeo/gxp/blob/master/src/script/plugins/WMSSource.js#L37 >> >> Best regards, >> Bart >> >> -- >> Bart van den Eijnden >> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org >> Expert service straight from the developers. >> >> >> >> On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Christopher Eykamp >> <christopher.eyk...@tudor.lu> wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> This is probably a very simple question but I just can't seem to figure it >>> out. >>> >>> I am writing a Javascript app to retrieve layer information from a WFS >>> server using a GetCapabilities request using GeoExt. GetCapabilities >>> returns information about the WFS server -- the server's name, who runs it, >>> etc., in addition to information on the data layers it has on offer. >>> >>> My basic code looks like this: >>> >>> ===== >>> var store = new GeoExt.data.WFSCapabilitiesStore({ url: serverURL }); >>> >>> store.on('load', successFunction); >>> store.on('exception', failureFunction); >>> store.load(); >>> ===== >>> >>> This works as expected, and when the loading completes, successFunction is >>> called. >>> >>> successFunction looks like this: >>> >>> ===== >>> successFunction = function(dataProxy, records, options) { >>> doSomeStuff(); >>> } >>> ===== >>> >>> dataProxy is a Ext.data.DataProxy object, records is a list of records, one >>> for each layer on the WFS server, and options is empty. >>> >>> And here is where I'm stuck: In this function, I can get access to all the >>> layer information regarding data offered by the server. But I also want to >>> extract the server information that is contained in the XML fetched during >>> the store.load() (see below). I can't figure out how to get it out of the >>> dataProxy object, where I'm sure it must be squirreled away. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> The fields I want are contained in this snippet: >>> >>> ===== >>> <ows:ServiceIdentification> >>> <ows:Title>G_WIS_testIvago</ows:Title> >>> <ows:Abstract/> >>> <ows:Keywords> >>> <ows:Keyword/> >>> </ows:Keywords> >>> <ows:ServiceType>WFS</ows:ServiceType> >>> <ows:ServiceTypeVersion>1.1.0</ows:ServiceTypeVersion> >>> <ows:Fees/> >>> <ows:AccessConstraints/> >>> ===== >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> Chris Eykamp >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users@geoext.org >>> http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users >> >
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