[Featureserver] Problem serializing/de-serializing a group of features

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    I have another problem with OpenLayers/Featureserver (not the SVN  
version but willing to switch if this is deemed helpful).

I have created an array of OpenLayers.Feature objects, some of which  
are lines and some are points. I serialize this using the  
geojson_format, and this is what I get:

{"type":"FeatureCollection","features": 
[{"type":"Feature","id":"OpenLayers.Feature.Vector_741","properties": 
{"name":"test"},"geometry":{"type":"LineString","coordinates": 
[[945178.1739570623,6276911.365012558], 
[945265.0031598689,6277036.95892723], 
[945566.6789798767,6277391.686957826],[945555.547030799,6277525.77463751

[...] (5 more features in the collection)

I can de-serialize this string without problems. I then send it to  
the Featureserver for storing, using a POST request to crate.geojson  
with the exact string from above as the message body. The data is  
stored successfully. I ran the above against an empty database and  
then retrieved object #1 using a GET request. What I get back is this:

{"crs": {"type": "none", "properties": {"info": "No CRS information  
has been provided with this data."}}, "type": "FeatureCollection",  
"features": [{"geometry": {"type": "LineString", "coordinates": 
[[945178.1739570623,6276911.365012558], 
[945265.0031598689,6277036.95892723], 
[945566.6789798767,6277391.686957826], 
[945555.547030799,6277525.77463751 ... "type": "Feature" ...

[...] (no more features in the collection)

Two things are unexpected about this:

1. Featureserver has stored all members of the collection I uploaded  
individually. I can now access them with individual GET requests  
as .../1, .../2 etc., but I cannot retrieve the group as uploaded. Is  
this the correct behaviour, and what coud I do to group the objects  
on the server?

2. For some reason, the GeoJSON I get back from Featureserver cannot  
be parsed - geojson_format.read() applied on the string simply  
returns null, whereas I would expect it to return an array containing  
one Feature.
I get no error messages however. I'll try to isolate this and narrow  
it down to a mini string that is not parseable but before I do that I  
wanted to ask whether this is maybe a known problem - anything to do  
with the "crs" stuff added by Featureserver perhaps?

Bye
Frederik


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