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Re: Changing featuretype datastore using REST

by ajayr :: Rate this Message:

Yeah just as Andrea pointed out, we are using it as a single datastore for multiple layers that we display, where each layer is shown differently based on the style.

Though I am not sure if it is a good "REST practise", but unfortunately I have to implement it that way (due to project requirements).

Thanks for all the help

Ajay

Andrea Aime-4 wrote:

Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:
> 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.

Nope, it's a feature (a sponsored one, too, it was added
along with the ability to set an alias for a layer).
The reasoning is to allow a service to publish the same layer
multiple times with different setups:
- different default style
- different "reproject to" projection

In particular the second was required so that WFS 1.0 clients
(ESRI Arc*) could access the data reprojected in various
ways without knowing anything about WFS 1.1

Cheers
Andrea

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