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<pre wrap="">Dear Users,
I am calling WFS layer and its calling the entire WFS layer, I need to
call the layer of a particular bounding box and this must be returned from
the Geoserver. Can anyone help me how to fire a request to Geoserver with
bounding box in url itslef?
As of now I had used BBOX filter and calling maxextent in the wfs which is
giving me the feature inside the BBOX but its calling the entire layer from
the server and then filtering and giving to me which is too time consuming
as I have to work with world data which has more than 40k features.
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My two cents. Rethink the application design. <br>
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In general WFS layers are a really bad idea. Do everything on the
server that you possibly can. With WFS you are slowed by large
network data traffic and more importantly, the limitations of
javascript compared to whatever the server is running. You want to
use WMS layers to maximize speed and use WFS for queries.<br>
See maybe
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/openlayers-users/2012-February/023918.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/openlayers-users/2012-February/023918.html</a><br>
(use a spatial bbox filter instead).<br>
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Note also, a very useful function that I think isnt documented well:<br>
<span class="st">OpenLayers.<wbr>Protocol.WFS.fromWMSLayer(layer)<br>
Ie create layer as a WMS layer and this function returns a wfs
protocol object for it that you can use for querying.<br>
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