[OpenLayers-Users] Detect geometry type of a wfs layer

[Bart van den Eijnden]

There is, but it depends on your WFS product (and maybe also the underlying type of datastore).

E.g. here you can see a GeoServer example that advertises this is a multi polygon layer:

http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wfs?service=WFS&request=DescribeFeatureType&typename=topp:states

I would advise you to ask on the list/forum of your WFS instead.

Best regards,
Bart

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On Aug 30, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Lucas Heezen - Covadis <Heezen at Covadis.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm building a application which can draw features. But the handler selected for the drawing is dynamic by its layer. So it could be a mulitpoint, multipolygon etc.
> Is there a way to detect the geometry type of a WFS layer?
> 
> I did a descriptFeatureType but this gives me only this:
> 
> <xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" name="geometrie" nillable="true" type="gml:GeometryPropertyType"/>
> 
> 
> Met vriendelijke groet,
> Lucas Heezen
> 
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