[OpenLayers-Users] wfs-t

Wed Apr 29 17:28:35 EDT 2009

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:46:16AM +1200, chris Wild wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can someone please tell me whats missing from my code to get WFS-t to commit
> changes.
> The demo works fine and my example works fine up to saving changes to file
> when an extra line is added.The data is added from postgreSQl database with
> PostGIS.


The Layer.WFS pobably will not work to save changes to a server. Look at 
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/wfs-protocol-transactions.html
instead. (Needs trunk/2.8-rc1) 
>             var roads = new OpenLayers.Layer.WFS(
>                 "Track",
>                 "/geoserver/wfs",
>                 {typename: 'topp:ttlines'},
>                 {
>                     typename: 'topp:ttlines',
>                     featureNS: 'http://www.openplans.org/topp',
>                     extractAttributes: false
>                 }
>             );
>             roads.style = OpenLayers.Util.applyDefaults({strokeColor:
> "#ff0000"},
>                     OpenLayers.Feature.Vector.style["default"]);
> 
>             map.addLayers([tiled, untiled, roads]);
> 
>             var panel = new OpenLayers.Control.Panel(
>                 {displayClass: 'olControlEditingToolbar'}
>             );
> 
>             var drawLine = new OpenLayers.Control.DrawFeature(
>                 roads, OpenLayers.Handler.Path,
>                 {displayClass: 'olControlDrawFeaturePath'}
>             );
>                 drawLine.featureAdded = function(feature) {
>                 feature.layer.eraseFeatures([feature]);
>                 // cast to multilinestring
>                 feature.geometry = new OpenLayers.Geometry.MultiLineString(
>                     feature.geometry
>                 );
>                 feature.style.strokeColor = "#ff0000";
>                 feature.state = OpenLayers.State.INSERT;
>                 feature.layer.drawFeature(feature);
>             }
> 
>             panel.addControls(
>                 [new OpenLayers.Control.Navigation(), drawLine]
>             );
>             map.addControl(panel);
>             map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher());
>             map.zoomToExtent(
>                 new OpenLayers.Bounds(2629421.7940751617, 6192776.755018141,
>                     2633541.55790017, 6195366.924973875)
>             );
>         }
>     </script>
>   </head>
>   <body onload="init()">
>     <h3>OpenLayers WFS-T demo: Tasmania cities and roads</h3>
>     <a href="#" onclick="map.layers[2].commit();return false">Save Roads</a>
>     <div id="map"></div>
>   </body>
> </html>
> 
> Many Thanks
> Chris

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