[mapserver-users] how remove the geometry from wfs response

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Should an issue(s) be opened against this:

* for the doc?
* for adding something to the test suite?
* for the WFS non compliance with ogr?

-Steve W

On 6/16/2017 6:25 AM, Even Rouault wrote:
> On jeudi 15 juin 2017 20:22:04 CEST Andrea Peri wrote:
> 
>  > Hi,
> 
>  > I need to force the remove from the wfs response of the geometry . I need
> 
>  > to avoid that the users could take the geometry and allow only the
> 
>  > alphanumeric attributes.
> 
>  > Is this allowed from mapserver ?
> 
> Andrea,
> 
> Digging into the code, I found that setting in the LAYER.METADATA
> 
> "gml_geometries" "none"
> 
> will do the job.
> 
> This trick is used internally in particular to implement 
> GetPropertyValue. But digging into history, I actually see it was done 
> on purpose for GetFeature as well per
> 
> https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/1718
> 
> It is just that the documentation for it in is missing in
> 
> http://mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_server.html . Doesn't seem to be tested in 
> the regression suite as far as I can see, so lucky it still works.
> 
> Note: this trick will only work for MapServer integrated GML output. OGR 
> outputformat doesn't honour this setting.
> 
> Even
> 
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