Re: [Geoserver-users] get and put of SLD xml files

[Raif S. N. <ra...@fo...>]

hello all,

thank you Brent, Chris and Andrea for your prompt reply.

Brent, i shall give this a go with GeoServer 1.4.0 if it works it will answ=
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my 'put-style' part of the question.  if i encounter any problems i'll take=
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you on your offer and will ask for help!

how about getting an SLD xml file; is there a ?request=3Dgetstyles&layers=
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equivalent?


On Thursday 01 February 2007 03:05, Brent Owens wrote:
> Hi Raif,
> Sorry just saw the email this morning. We do have a pseudo putStyles
> method. Here is the breakdown of how to use it:
>
> Send a POST request to your server instance using this url:
> localhost:8080/geoserver/wms?request=3Dputstyles
> (replace 'localhost' with your server address)
> Then the body just has to be the SLD file.
> Make sure that the SLD has a NamedLayer where the <Name> is equal to the
> feature type you want to set the style for. Then in the NamedLayer tag
> make sure there is a <UserStyle> that has the name of the style you want
> to use.
>
> Here is a snippit from our basic SLD editor that builds the SLD file
> before it sends it off:
> XML  =3D '<?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"UTF-8"?>'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '<StyledLayerDescriptor version=3D"1.0.0"'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '    xmlns:gml=3D"http://www.opengis.net/gml"'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '    xmlns:ogc=3D"http://www.opengis.net/ogc"'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '    xmlns=3D"http://www.opengis.net/sld">'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '    <NamedLayer>'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '        <Name>'+featureType+'</Name>'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '        <UserStyle>'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '            <Name>'+featureType+'_style</Name>'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '            <Title>geoserver style</Title>'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '            <Abstract>Generated by GeoServer</Abstract>'+"\=
n";
>     XML +=3D '            <FeatureTypeStyle>'+"\n";
>     XML +=3D '            <Rule>'+"\n";
> ...
> ...
> ...
>
> Be warned that the put styles request is not very robust and was
> designed just for the sld editor, but it wouldn't be hard to improve it
> and I could point you at the code and walk you through how to improve it
> if you would like. It is definitely something that would be nice to have.
>
> Feel free to ask me if you need any more help.
> cheers,
>
> Brent Owens
> (The Open Planning Project)
>
> Chris Holmes wrote:
> > Brent was the one who coded it up, and I was hoping he'd answer, but
> > let's ping him directly.
> >
> > Brent, could you point Raif at how to programmatically put a style in
> > to GeoServer?  Maybe a code snippet from your basic SLD editor?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Andrea Aime wrote:
> >> Raif S. Naffah ha scritto:
> >>> hello all,
> >>>
> >>> is there a way to programmatically send and receive SLD files to
> >>> GeoServer; e.g. access, and may be replace, the style named
> >>> 'population' (which seems to be defined in popshade.sld in the
> >>> folder $GEOSERVER_WEBAPP/conf/styles) used by the 'topp:states' layer?
> >>
> >> As far as I know, we do lack a GetStyle, we do have a prototype
> >> PutStyles but they told me it's not compliant with the SLD WMS
> >> extensions, and its not documented anywhere, neither...
> >> Maybe my colleagues know more, let's wait and see what they can say
> >> about this.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Andrea
> >>
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cheers;
rsn