[Geoserver-users] Versioning layers?

[Geoff C. <G.C...@gn...>]

Hi,

we have a WFS, provided using GeoServer, for earthquake information in New Zealand.  More details here:

http://info.geonet.org.nz/display/appdata/Earthquake+Web+Feature+Service

We plan to add more output to the geonet:quake layer.  I guess this is potential for this being a breaking change for some clients.  If I was changing a REST web service I would usually have a version number in the web service say for example:

http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/services/all.json

versus

http://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/services/2/all.json

Is this sort of approach (adding a version number into the URL) recommended with GeoServer and if so how is it best done?

Thanks,
Geoff
 

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Geoff Clitheroe
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