[mapserver-users] WFS OUTPUTFORMATs and PROPERTYNAME

[Even Rouault]

On lundi 2 juillet 2018 20:55:11 CEST Seth G wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A question on WFS GetFeature requests and the OUTPUTFORMAT type.
> 
> All fields specified in gml_include_items are returned when creating non-GML
> outputs such as Shapefile and GeoJSON even when setting the PROPERTYNAME
> parameter in the request to reduce which fields should be added to the
> output. The docs at
> http://mapserver.org/output/ogr_output.html#layer-metadata note you can use
>  gml_include_items but makes no mention they can't be overridden with
> PROPERTYNAME .
> 
> As OUTPUT format is an extension to WFS
> (http://mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_server.html#mapserver-wfs-extensions) is this
> logic by design?
> 
> Maybe a note should be added to
> http://mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_server.html#to-do-items-and-known-limitations
> ?

Seth,

>From a quick test, I don't see a difference in behaviour between OGR output 
and native GML one, based on msautotest wfs_ogr.map

$ mapserv 
QUERY_STRING="map=wfs_ogr.map&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.1.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&TYPENAME=popplace&OUTPUTFORMAT=CSV&PROPERTYNAME=NAME&MAXFEATURES=1"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=result.csv
Content-Type: text/csv

WKT,NAME
"POINT (2281604.25 340848.9375)","""Tignish"


$ mapserv 
QUERY_STRING="map=wfs_ogr.map&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.1.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&TYPENAME=popplace&PROPERTYNAME=NAME&MAXFEATURES=1"
Content-Type: text/xml; subtype=gml/3.1.1; charset=UTF-8

<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<wfs:FeatureCollection
   xmlns:ms="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver"
   xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
   xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs"
   xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver http://
localhost/path/to/wfs_simple?
SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.1.0&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&TYPENAME=popplace&OUTPUTFORMAT=text/
xml;%20subtype=gml/3.1.1  http://www.opengis.net/wfs http://
schemas.opengis.net/wfs/1.1.0/wfs.xsd">
      <gml:boundedBy>
      	<gml:Envelope srsName="EPSG:3978">
      		<gml:lowerCorner>2281604.250000 340848.937500</gml:lowerCorner>
      		<gml:upperCorner>2281604.250000 340848.937500</gml:upperCorner>
      	</gml:Envelope>
      </gml:boundedBy>
    <gml:featureMember>
      <ms:popplace gml:id="popplace.BACMK">
        <ms:NAME>"Tignish</ms:NAME>
      </ms:popplace>
    </gml:featureMember>
</wfs:FeatureCollection>

Even

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