[QGIS-Developer] Loading WFS layers from GeoServer

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Paul,

QGIS 3.16 (well, since ... I don not know exactly) has s NetworkLogger/Debugger.
If you hit the F12 button, you will see all WFS-requests that QGIS is firing to the server.
You can 'replay' these in a browser, and see if it returns valid GML (as in: save it to disk and then try to open it as vector data).
Normally QGIS starts with a GetCapabilities request, then a DescribeLayer and then a GetFeature. You need that last one.
In the Network Debugging window you can also see if the server maybe returns an error code (as: not 200).

Does the Geoserver-layer preview work? As in can you see the layers there?

Normally WFS/WMS from Geoserver play pretty well together with QGIS.
Is there something special to the data? (curves, nonvalid geometries, ???)

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde



On 11/27/20 3:48 PM, Paul Wittle wrote:
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> So the WFS layers do now return correctly from GeoServer in both WMS and all WFS formats and I’ve improved various indexes.
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> I also found a plugin called WFS 2.0 Client and tried that; it returned the features successfully.
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> Unfortunately that seems to be a one off download method rather than adding a live linked layer so it didn’t fix the issue but did prove that the GeoServer can return features.
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> I’m still having the same trouble when trying to add the layers to QGIS 3.10 though; it just adds a layer with the image icon but of course it can’t draw the layer and it loads as a bad layer if you save it in the project.
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> Does anyone have any suggestions of what might be the issue?
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> The server does require authentication.
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> Thanks,
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> *From:*Ian Turton <ijturton at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 27 November 2020 09:59
> *To:* Paul Wittle <P.Wittle at dorsetcc.gov.uk>
> *Cc:* qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [QGIS-Developer] Loading WFS layers from GeoServer
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> On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 09:48, Paul Wittle <paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk <mailto:paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk>> wrote:
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>     I’m trying to load some WFS layers from my internal GeoServer into QGIS 3.10 and 3.16. The datastore in GeoServer is based on a view in a SQL Server database but it does have a primary key on the spatial table at least.
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>     When I load it in 3.10 it comes in as the image icon (i.e. doesn’t load) so I thought I’d try it in the latest version and in that version QGIS just disappears (completely crashes).
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>     Has anyone else had a similar problem and can help me work out how to get the layers to load? I suspect the issue is the way the view is configured in SQL Server however I also wonder if I need to investigate the 3.16 crash and potentially log that as a bug as it is not handling the crash with the normal message the application just closes without warning?
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> Can you check if GeoServer is returning GML or an error message when you make a WFS request? But I don't think that QGis should crash no matter what is in the response.
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