[mapserver-users] Postgres call 2 GetCapabilities attribute listing.

[Jeff McKenna]

Apologies for spelling your name wrong Jukka, darn.

-jeff



On 2017-01-10 1:41 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> On 2017-01-10 1:29 PM, Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote:
>> I would activate WFS and send DescribeFeatureType for reading the
>> schema. No need to support other WFS request. All you need is less than
>> ten new metadata lines in your mapfile and you can make Mapserver to
>> publish both the column names and their data types.
>>
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> Good point Yukka.  Then use JavaScript or whatever your lang preference
> is) to parse those WFS results and populate your form.  This is similar
> to the WMS/GetFeatureInfo way.
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> Example WFS request:
> http://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&Typename=cities
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> -jeff
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