[mapserver-users] WFS Client returns data at random with very same call

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at mapgears.com
Thu May 27 12:36:15 PDT 2021


Since you use CONNECTIONTYPE OGR, none of the MapServer WFS Client logic 
takes place.  Is there any reason why you cannot use CONNECTIONTYPE WFS 
as documented here:

https://mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_client.html



On 2021-05-27 02:51, Lars Fricke wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> as this list is a source of much deeper insight than I have into 
> Mapserver, I would like to ask about a very strange issue I am facing.
> 
> I am calling on a public WFS server I can query "by hand" fast and 
> successfully every single time. Now I defined a Mapserver layer (see 
> below) as an OGR layer in my WFS map-file and it does - on the same call 
> - return data. But not reliably, more at random. I played with the 
> connection-timeout and the maxfeatures and it seemed to have some 
> influence but again, not reliably. I'll post the relevant parts of my 
> mapfile (all my other layers with other sources are working fine):
> """
> MAP
>    NAME "WFS_Test"
>    SHAPEPATH "/data"
>    STATUS ON
>    UNITS METERS
>    EXTENT -2851663 2776500 5630523 9970363
> 
>    PROJECTION
>      "init=epsg:3857"
>    END # PROJECTION
> 
>    WEB
>      FOOTER "TestServer"
>      IMAGEPATH "/tmp/"
>      TEMPPATH "/tmp/"
>      IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>      METADATA
>        "wfs_title"          "Test"
>        "ows_onlineresource" 
> "http://my_server.de/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/wfs.map"
>        "ows_enable_request"    "*"
>        "ows_srs"    "EPSG:3857 EPSG:4326 EPSG:25832"
>        "wfs_srs"    "EPSG:3857 EPSG:4326 EPSG:25832"
>        "wfs_getfeature_formatlist" "jsonp,ogrgml"
>        "wfs_encoding" "UTF-8"
>        "wfs_connectiontimeout" "20"
>        #"wfs_request_method"   "GET"
>      END # METADATA
>      VALIDATION
>          callback ".*"
>      END
>    END # WEB
> 
>    OUTPUTFORMAT
>     NAME "jsonp"
>     DRIVER "OGR/GEOJSON"
>     MIMETYPE "application/json; subtype=geojson; charset=utf-8"
>     FORMATOPTION "STORAGE=stream"
>     FORMATOPTION "FORM=SIMPLE"
>     FORMATOPTION "LCO:COORDINATE_PRECISION=10"
>     FORMATOPTION "JSONP=%callback%"
>    END
> 
>    OUTPUTFORMAT
>     NAME "OGRGML"
>     DRIVER "OGR/GML"
>     FORMATOPTION "STORAGE=filesystem"
>     FORMATOPTION "FORM=multipart"
>     FORMATOPTION "FILENAME=result.gml"
>    END
> 
>    SYMBOL
>      NAME "circle_filled"
>      TYPE ELLIPSE
>      FILLED TRUE
>      POINTS
>        1 1
>      END
>    END
> 
>    LAYER
>      NAME "TestLayer"
>      CONNECTION "wfs-request-testlayer.xml"
>      EXTENT 84710 5210905 1163008 6125425
>      CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>      STATUS ON
>      DATA "dop"
>      METADATA
>        "wfs_version"    "2.0.0"
>        "wfs_title"    "TestLayer_WFS"
>        "wfs_connectiontimeout" "100"
>        "wfs_typename"    "TestLayer_WFS_int"
>        "wfs_maxfeatures"       "600"
> 
>      END # METADATA
>      PROJECTION
>        "init=epsg:25832"
>      END # PROJECTION
>      TYPE POLYGON
>      CLASS
>        NAME "aerial_image_footprint"
>        STYLE
>          OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
>          WIDTH 0.7
>        END # STYLE
>      END # CLASS
>    END # LAYER
> """
> I made the xml-file wit ogrinfo as I did for many other layers that work.
> The call is:
> """
> http://localhost:8181/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/wfs.map&
> SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=2.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&SRSNAME=EPSG:3857&BBOX=1292610.86313433,6822730.62911591,1293128.57472490,6823169.70765144&TYPENAME=TestLayer
> """
> If I replace the Server name with the public server, it works like a 
> breeze (even it is 3857).
> The public server has:
> """
> <DefaultCRS>urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:6.9:25832</DefaultCRS>
> <OtherSRS>urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:6.9:4326</OtherSRS>
> """
> 
> I see the following response in the browser:
> """
> <wfs:FeatureCollectionxmlns:ms="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver"xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2"xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs/2.0"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:schemaLocation="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver 
> http://wfs/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/wfs.map&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=2.0.0&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&TYPENAME=DOP_AGE_DE&OUTPUTFORMAT=application%2Fgml%2Bxml%3B%20version%3D3.2 
> http://www.opengis.net/wfs/2.0 
> http://schemas.opengis.net/wfs/2.0/wfs.xsd 
> http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2 
> http://schemas.opengis.net/gml/3.2.1/gml.xsd"timeStamp="2021-05-27T06:30:38"numberMatched="0"numberReturned="0"></wfs:FeatureCollection>
> """
> And in the log:
> """
> [warn] [pid 26] mod_fcgid: stderr: msQueryByRect(): Search returned no 
> results. No matching record(s) found.
>   [warn] [pid 26] mod_fcgid: stderr: freeLayer(): freeing layer at 
> 0x131f120.
> 3169463 - 172.17.0.1 - - [27/May/2021:06:30:35 +0000] "GET 
> /cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/wfs.map&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=2.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&SRSNAME=EPSG:3857&BBOX=1292610.86313433,6822730.62911591,1293128.57472490,6823169.70765144&TYPENAME=TestLayer 
> HTTP/1.1" 200 793 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) 
> AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36"
> 330 - 172.17.0.1 - - [27/May/2021:06:30:38 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico 
> HTTP/1.1" 200 414 
> "http://localhost:8181/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/wfs.map&SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=2.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&SRSNAME=EPSG:3857&BBOX=1292610.86313433,6822730.62911591,1293128.57472490,6823169.70765144&TYPENAME=TestLayer" 
> "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) 
> Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36"
> """
> I will be grateful for any clue on what is going on. Thank you for your 
> trouble!
> 
> Best
> 
> Lars
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