[Qgis-user] QGIS Server a GetFeatureInfo request problems. Not sure what I am missing.

[Peter Len]

An interesting update to this......  So the scenario that has not been working looks something like this:

OpenLayers --> QGIS Server --> QGIS Project File --> GeoServer --> PostGIS

I decided to run a test and create a new project file with the same layer (location_view) but this time create a PostGIS layer rather than a WMS layer going to GeoServer.  In this case, the scenario looks like:

OpenLayers --> QGIS Server --> QGIS Project File --> PostGIS

So, given that, it appears that something else might be going on.  QGIS Server does seem to be serving up feature information, but not in all scenarios.  Not sure what the hiccup is between QGIS Server and GeoServer but I know that URLs from OpenLayers directly to GeoServer for feature info works fine.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
>Sent: Jan 20, 2014 7:49 PM
>To: Peter Len <peteralen at earthlink.net>, qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Server a GetFeatureInfo request problems. Not sure what I am missing.
>
>The method I use to troubleshoot these kinds of things involves using
>the Firebug extension in Firefox. Where you can see what the WMS request
>being sent looks like (NET tab), copy and paste it, manipulate it by
>hand until it works and then figure out how to make Openlayers send it
>that way.
>
>Thanks,
>Alex
>
>On 01/20/2014 12:44 PM, Peter Len wrote:
>> Alex - Thanks for the reply.  Initially, I was trying to run this test using a project file where I used the "map" parameter in the layer definition.  This got the layers to display within OpenLayers but the GetFeatureInfo request was not working.  I then went back to having the project file in the QGIS Server's bin directory so that no file name has to be listed.  That is the setup I was using in the examples I provided.  I went back and ran another test when using a file at some path and used your "vendorParams" example, but the outcome is the same.  
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
>>> Sent: Jan 20, 2014 3:34 PM
>>> To: Peter Len <peteralen at earthlink.net>, qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Server a GetFeatureInfo request problems. Not sure what I am missing.
>>>
>>> On 01/20/2014 12:19 PM, Peter Len wrote:
>>>> I am using QGIS Server that is running in my OSGeo Apache web server (on Windows 7).  Not sure what version the QGIS Server is but it was from the latest OSGeo4W installer.  I was testing an OpenLayers client to view a QGIS Desktop project file over WMS from the QGIS Server.  All seems good with that.  For example, my OpenLayers code to get  this looks like:
>>>>
>>>> var url = "http://localhost:8090/qgis/qgis_mapserv.fcgi.exe";
>>>> var layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "Main Layer", url, {
>>>> 	layers: 'table_poly,location_view',
>>>> 	format: 'image/png',
>>>>    },
>>>>    {
>>>>        buffer: 1, 
>>>> 	isBaseLayer: true, 
>>>>        graphicZIndex: 0, 
>>>>    }
>>>> );
>>>> map.addLayers([layer]);
>>>>
>>>> With the above, I can view my layers within OpenLayers.  My next test was to see if I could get the feature info from items on my layers.  I found an example of how to make this call in OpenLayers and it looks like:
>>>>
>>>> var info = new OpenLayers.Control.WMSGetFeatureInfo({
>>>>                           url: url,
>>>>                           title: 'Identify features by clicking',
>>>>                           queryVisible: true,
>>>>                           eventListeners: {
>>>>                             getfeatureinfo: function(event) {
>>>>                                 alert("Got feature info");                         
>>>>                             }
>>>>                          }
>>>>                       });
>>>> map.addControl(info);
>>>> info.activate();
>>>>
>>>> When I tried this, I didn't get anything except a spinning cursor.  I then tried another test to see if that was the correct way to ask for feature info so I changed the URL for the layers to get the layers from my GeoServer rather than from QGIS Server (the project file got these layers initially from GeoServer so we are talking about the same layer source).  That worked just fine and I was able to get individual feature information.  After switching back to point to my QGIS Server I started to look at the Apache web server logs and the GeoServer output screen.  The Apache logs didn't list anything related but the GeoServer console listed the following:
>>>>
>>>
>>> WMS GetFeatureInfo in OpenLayers does in fact work with QGIS Server with
>>> one trick, vendorParams you need to specify the qgs file to reference.
>>>
>>> infoControls = {
>>>            click: new OpenLayers.Control.WMSGetFeatureInfo({
>>>                url: "http://yoursite.com/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi",
>>>                title: 'Identify features by clicking',
>>>                layers: [yourlayer],
>>>                queryVisible: true,
>>>                vendorParams:{map:"/path/to/map/project.qgs"}
>>>            }),
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>> 
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