[OpenLayers-Users] Featureserver + Openlayers

[Alexandre Dube]

Hi,

Here's a working OpenLayers+FeatureServer demo :
http://dev4.mapgears.com/bdga-fs/

It uses the MapFish protocol since MapFish server can be "talked to" 
pretty much the same way as FeatureServer.

Hope this helps,

Alexandre

goliah wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm trying to use OpenLayers and Feature Server.
> What i'd like to do is use WFS-T protocol to make a simple feature editor.
>
> I've set up Featureserver (beautiful software) easily under CGI, and tried
> to setup something like the
> WFS-Transactional example:
> http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/wfs-protocol-transactions.html
> http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/wfs-protocol-transactions.html 
>
> I've had some problems using this example on my server, in particular with
> WFS protocol, that I had to change to HTTP Protocol for making things work
>
> I ended up with this code:
>
> http://www.maurob.org/fttest/index.html
>
> on line 113 you can find the wfs layer declaration:
>
> //code here
>
> wfs = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Scribble", {
> 					protocol: new OpenLayers.Protocol.HTTP({
> 						url: "http://www.maurob.org/featureserver/featureserver.cgi/scribble",
> 						format: new OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON()
> 						}),
> 					strategies: [
> 						new OpenLayers.Strategy.Fixed(),
> 						saveStrategy
> 					],
> 					projection:new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326")
> 				});
>
>
> //end code
>
>
> This because, if using OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS I couldn't set the right
> format to talk to featureserver.
>
> It is quite working now (can add and modify features),
> Anyway, I still cannot delete feature (seems like DELETE request is not
> understood by Featureserver)
>
> Do you think mine is a reasonable setup of the wfs layer declaration in
> openlayers (protocol/format) ?
> which is right way to handle it?
>
> Thanks a lot for any idea.
> Mauro
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Alexandre Dubé
Mapgears
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