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by Justin Deoliveira-6
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Hi Ajay,
Well in general multiple feature types for a shapefile datastore does
not make much sense. Although you are right, the UI does allow you to
create a second feature type for a shapefile ds, it seems to mostly
override the first though. I would call this a bug.
Regardless, my guess is yes, the REST api would probably allow you to do
this but i would advise against it as it will lead to unexpected
behavior. There should probably be a check for this case and an error
produced.
-Justin
ajayr wrote:
> Hey Justin
>
> Thanks for the information, yeah I have decided to make my implementation
> more RESTful based on ur suggestion.
>
> Another question, do you know if the 1.7.5 version of geoserver's REST
> supports having multiple featuretypes for a single shapefile datastore. I
> know we can kinda do it through the admin GUI interface, any idea if the
> same can be done using REST interface?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ajay
>
> Justin Deoliveira-6 wrote:
>> Hi Ajay,
>>
>> ajayr wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am looking for examples to allow me to change the datastore associated
>>> with a featuretype using REST API for geoserver
>>>
>>> One solution is to do a GET on an existing featuretype , extract the XML,
>>> modify the <store> tag and POST it back to the same layer
>> While this might work but it would not be considered good practice from
>> a REST perspective, because you are changing a resources location based
>> on its representation. ie you would do a PUT against the feature type,
>> but then it would move to another location....
>>
>> A more RESTful (although less convenient) solution would be to:
>>
>> 1. Do a GET on the feature type, saving its representation
>> 2. Do a DELETE on the feature type
>> 3. Do a POST to the new datastore
>>
>> -Justin
>>> Is there any other alternative and easier way to do this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Ajay
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Justin Deoliveira
>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
>> Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
>>
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Well in general multiple feature types for a shapefile datastore does
not make much sense. Although you are right, the UI does allow you to
create a second feature type for a shapefile ds, it seems to mostly
override the first though. I would call this a bug.
Regardless, my guess is yes, the REST api would probably allow you to do
this but i would advise against it as it will lead to unexpected
behavior. There should probably be a check for this case and an error
produced.
-Justin
ajayr wrote:
> Hey Justin
>
> Thanks for the information, yeah I have decided to make my implementation
> more RESTful based on ur suggestion.
>
> Another question, do you know if the 1.7.5 version of geoserver's REST
> supports having multiple featuretypes for a single shapefile datastore. I
> know we can kinda do it through the admin GUI interface, any idea if the
> same can be done using REST interface?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ajay
>
> Justin Deoliveira-6 wrote:
>> Hi Ajay,
>>
>> ajayr wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am looking for examples to allow me to change the datastore associated
>>> with a featuretype using REST API for geoserver
>>>
>>> One solution is to do a GET on an existing featuretype , extract the XML,
>>> modify the <store> tag and POST it back to the same layer
>> While this might work but it would not be considered good practice from
>> a REST perspective, because you are changing a resources location based
>> on its representation. ie you would do a PUT against the feature type,
>> but then it would move to another location....
>>
>> A more RESTful (although less convenient) solution would be to:
>>
>> 1. Do a GET on the feature type, saving its representation
>> 2. Do a DELETE on the feature type
>> 3. Do a POST to the new datastore
>>
>> -Justin
>>> Is there any other alternative and easier way to do this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Ajay
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Justin Deoliveira
>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
>> Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge
>> This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time,
>> vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have
>> the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full
>> prize
>> details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge
>> _______________________________________________
>> Geoserver-users mailing list
>> Geoserver-users@...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
>>
>>
>
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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
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