[Mapserver-dev] WFS interoperability issues
Rob Atkinson
rob at socialchange.net.au
Wed Feb 11 21:21:09 EST 2004
Hi folk,
have been doing some interoperability testing on WFS functionality in
v4.01 and 4.1
at this stage I have been using precompiled binaries, so these comments
do refer to 4.1-dev Windoze.
4.1 is a big improvement over 4.0 - so much so I'm happy to help get the
last few glitches ironed out and start using the beast.
Here are the key issues:
1) The capabilities response offers both POST and GET - but only GET
appears to work. This may be due to the fact I need to specify the
mapfile and there is no obvious way of doing that in the POST request. I
have searched documentation, bug lists and archives and not been able to
find how you intend to address this.
2) POST requests are returning non-XML responses - PNG images!
3) Features have no formal identifier (in GML 2 the "fid" atttribute) -
I see this is a reported bug already - but would like to stress its
importance. It is also important that "fids" can be made persistent -
they are an object identifier after all. I would suggest that the map
file syntax be extended to allow the nomination of a field to be mapped
to this.
Would appreciate any info on these matters and whether I need to fix -
would prefer to perform testing if someone else can do it.
Regards
Rob Atkinson
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