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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 23.10.2008, at 14:31, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 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


Please ignore item 2, that was another JSON/GeoJSON problem it seems  
and is solved now. However I am still  unsure about item 1.

Maybe my whole approach is broken. What I'm doing is: I have a front- 
end that computes directions (how to get from A to B) using various  
services, and dispalys them using OpenLayers. I now want users to be  
able to comment on the results by placing markers on  the map and  
adding comments ("... service A takes a bad decision at this  
intersection, service B does it better..."), and then what I want is  
to save the whole parcel - start point, end point, vectors describing  
the various results, and markers (i.e. point features) - to  
Featureserver. However these Features are not meant to be accessed  
indiviually out of context - the marker with user annotation is not  
worth anything without the linestrings.

Ultimately I want to display a simplified overview map where at first  
you only get dots labelled "route from X to Y, 4 comments", and then  
I want to be able to select one of these and load the "parcel" and  
display it.

Maybe I should just dump Featureserver and simply store the  
OpenLayers-generated GeoJSON strings for a full "parcel" in a plain  
MySQL or PostGIS database? My use case is probably on the fringe of  
what Featureserver was intended to do, so maybe I'm buying more  
trouble than I'm saving time here.

Bye
Federik

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