[Featureserver] current transaction aborted when openlayers reading from featureserver WFS.

[Josh Livni]

Ed,

It's definitely on the featureserver side of things.  And it seems to be 
the bbox request that's messing it up: 
http://pocus.wustl.edu/cgi-bin/featureserver2/featureserver.cgi/GIS?format=WFS&BBOX=-100.773,39.64706,-99.226,40.3529 


Have you done any modifications at all to the postgis.py or any other 
files in this featureserver setup?  And are you running the latest code 
from svn trunk?

Finally, once we do get this issue sorted, you'll quickly run into 
another problem:  There's no way you can display 5k polygons at once 
with WFS.  I'd say no more than a couple hundred before your browser 
starts to keel over.  If you need to display all the polygons at once, 
you will probably want to render then as image overlays.  Then if you 
need to query/highlight/edit just a few of them at a time, get your 
Openlayers to query for just those that need to be in vector format...

 -Josh

Ed Fialkowski wrote:
> I'm not so sure if this is an openlayers or a featureserver problem,  
> so forgive me if I guessed wrong.
>
> I have a working WFS from featureserver up at: 
> http://pocus.wustl.edu/cgi-bin/featureserver2/featureserver.cgi/GIS?format=WFS
> I have a quick openlayers map reading from the WFS at: 
> http://pocus.wustl.edu/openlayers/wfs.html
>
> Each county is supposed to have a feature, but every time I view the 
> page or pan to a new area, I get:
>
> Error: syntax error
> Source File: http://pocus.wustl.edu/openlayers/wfs.html
> Line: 1, Column: 1
> Source Code:
> An error occurred: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored 
> until end of transaction block^
>
> Here is my WFS layer creation:
> url = 
> "http://pocus.wustl.edu/cgi-bin/featureserver2/featureserver.cgi/GIS?format=WFS";
> wfs = new OpenLayers.Layer.WFS("WFS", url, {maxfeatures: "100"}, 
> {extractAttributes: true});
>
>
> eventually I'll raise maxfeatures to roughly 5k, but I'm starting low.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?  I would greatly appreciate it.
> Thanks!
> -Ed
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