[mapguide-users] mapguide-rest

[Jackie Ng]

The general URL pattern is:

GET http://localhost/mapguide/rest/library/<transcoded path
to>.FeatureSource/data/<your file name>

On a side-note, I would recommend you to have a look at the repository
through its HTML representation:

http://localhost/mapguide/rest/library/list.html

The HTML representation of the repository really maps out all the possible
URLs you can access for any particular resource. It's a simple way to
"explore" what the mapguide-rest API offers, as it's all there as links.
Failing that, there's also an interactive swagger API runner at:

http://localhost/mapguide/rest/doc/index.html

This lists all the APIs available with auto-generated forms for you to test
the various APIs.

Now back to the topic at hand, a SHP file throws a spanner in the works
because it is not one physical file. It has various components (.shx, .dbf,
and a whole bunch of other files) that you also have to download and
mapguide-rest does not provide any SHP-specific access path where you can
download the whole SHP "file", so your application has to be aware of a SHP
feature source and have some custom code that downloads all the components
of the SHP "file" and serve out a zip file of all the component parts.

- Jackie



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