[OpenLayers-Users] Featureserver + Openlayers

[goliah]

Thanks Alexandre,

I'll check it out.
Do you think I should switch to a mapfish server for a production app?
It seems like it is more mantained.

Thanks again 
Mauro




Alexandre Dube wrote:
> 
> 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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> 
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