[Featureserver] Fwd: [udig-users] WFS layer from FeatureServer

[Paolo Corti]

Hi
maybe now something is not obvious to me, but:
is there any way to get a DescribeFeatureType request? Looking at
source code seems not.

This would be a way to load FeatureServer layers in uDig (or other
desktop clients):
http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=5192

or am I missing something?
thanks

Paolo


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jody Garnett <jgarnett at refractions.net>
Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [udig-users] WFS layer from FeatureServer
To: Paolo Corti <pcorti at gmail.com>
Cc: udig-users at lists.refractions.net


Morning Paolo:

 Can you create an issue for this item; you will need to attach the
 capabilities document generated by the link you provided.  I would love
 to ask what WFS implementation is behind featureserver.cgi :-)

 You can create an issue by going to this page
 (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/UDIG) and clicking on the Create a new
 issue in project uDIG.

 A couple of notes when setting up a WFS server to work with uDig:
 -  uDig uses the DescribeFeatureType XML Schema file to define the data
 structure used to read your Features; the slightest mistake and uDig
 won't be able to function. WFS providers are not very good about making
 sure it is valid 90% of the time this is where the problem is.
 - make sure the document generated by GetFeatures actually uses the
 DescribeFeatureType schema as its schema for validation
 - uDig can just read WFS 1.0 at this time; a developer from the Open
 Planning Project is adding WFS 1.1 support to trunk as we speak

 Hopefully this gives you some ideas to check.

> SEVERE: must be one feature 0
 > org.geotools.xml.gml.GMLComplexTypes$FeatureAssociationType.getValue(GMLComplexTypes.java:5082)
 >
 Looking at what the code is doing here it sounds like a feature
 association is empty (an association is how the capabilities document
 describes what to expect inside the feature collection returned by the
 WFS GetFeature operation). It looks like it was hoping to read the name
 of your FeatureType here and none was provided.

 Jody



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Paolo Corti
http://www.paolocorti.net