[OpenLayers-Users] simultaneous parse and display of WFS data?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Chris Green wrote:
> Hi all
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> Apologies for re-posting but I am hoping someone can guide me on my 
> problem over simultaneously parsing and displaying features obtained by 
> WFS on a vector layer:
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> I have defined a vector layer which successfully makes a WFS call and 
> displays features captured by my filter, as below:  
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> var wfs = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("WFS", {
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>             styleMap: WFSstyle,
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>             strategies: [new OpenLayers.Strategy.Fixed()],
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>             protocol: new OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS.v1_1_0({
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>                 url: 
> "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=c:/ms4w/apps/NewStart/htdocs/my.map",
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>                 featureType: "cities",
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>                 info_format: 'text',
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>                 maxFeatures: 100,
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>                 filter: myFilter,
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>                 featureNS: "http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver"
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>              })
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>  });
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> Since I also want  a list of the captured features in text form I can 
> get this by adding to the above protocol definition:  
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>             parseFeatures: function(request) {
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>              …code to present features as a list….  
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>                 }
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> My problem is that when I add parseFeatures to the WFS protocol the 
> vector layer no longer displays the features. It seems that I can either 
> have the features displayed on the layer or parse them into a list, but 
> not both.
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> Does anyone know of a way of getting both things at the same time?

Chris,

I think you want to add an event listener to the layer for 
"featuresadded" something like:

   wfs.events.register('featuresadded', null, function(features) {
      for(var i=0, len=features.length; i<len; i++) {
          // do something with each features[i] feature
      }
   });

http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/Vector-js.html

These will already be parsed into OL features so you do not need to 
parse them just, if you juat want the attributes then:

    features[i].attributes is a hash array of the attributes

http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Feature/Vector-js.html


-Steve