[OpenLayers-Users] Interface for associating SLD styles with feature types

[Tom B]

Hi all,

I've asked this on the GeoServer forum, but haven't gotten any responses, so
I thought I might try it here.  It's not exactly OpenLayers-specific, but it
concerns matters that other OL users may be familiar with/interested in.

We're using GeoServer to serve up a large set of features, each of which
belong to a feature type.  We're hoping to build an interface for attaching
specific style rules to each feature type.  The styling will be done via SLD
(the features are shown using WMS in OpenLayers).  We have hundreds of
feature types, so a single style rule will likely be associated with
multiple feature types.  

The plan we are thinking of using is this:

1.  Make a style rules table, with fields like "stroke width", "stroke
color", "fill color", "point image icon", etc.
2. Make a CRUD interface for editing the style rules table.
3. Add a field to our feature types table called something like
style_rule_id, and have a drop-down menu that lets you assign a style rule
to a feature type.
4. Set up GeoServer so that, when a feature is requested, the style rule
fields (e.g. "stroke width") of its feature type are served.  The SLD then
uses these fields' values to style the feature (probably by using
<ogc:PropertyName>).

Does this sound like a reasonable setup?  I'm new to this, so if anyone has
any pointers or better methods of achieving this, that'd be great.

Thanks,
Tom
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