Re: [Geoserver-users] WFS Exception

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Stephan Holl ha scritto:
> Dear Geoserver-users,
> 
> I am fairly new to geoservers WFS and I have deployed the 1.5.0-war
> successfully in my tomcat. Everything works nicely but when trying to
> access geoserver-wfs with a simple GetFeature-POST-Request on the
> sampple-data, geoserver dies with a NPE:
> 
> Request:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <wfs:GetFeature xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc"
> xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
> xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs" 
> outputFormat="GML2" 
> version="1.0.0"> <wfs:Query xmlns:topp="http://www.openplans.org/topp"
> typeName="topp:states"> 
> <wfs:PropertyName>
> topp:the_geom</wfs:PropertyName> 
> <wfs:PropertyName>
> topp:STATE_NAME</wfs:PropertyName>
> </wfs:Query>
> </wfs:GetFeature>
> 
> Adding service="WFS" to the GetFeature-request returns the results
> though.
> 
> Exception:
> <html><head><title>GeoServer - Exception</title>  <meta
> content="text/css" http-equiv="content-style-type">  <style
> type="text/css">    <!-- @import url("/geoserver/style.css"); -->
> </style>  <link type="image/gif" href="gs.gif" rel="icon"><!-- mozilla
> -->   <link href="gs.ico" rel="SHORTCUT ICON"><!-- ie
> --></head><body><h1>GeoServer - Exception</h1>The following exception
> was thrown:<br><i><code>java.lang.NullPointerException</code></i>
> </body></html>
> 
> AFAIK it should return something, that service="WFS" is missing in the
> request, but no NPE.

Yep, we should state the request is invalid according to the WFS 
GetFeature xml schema, that mandates the attribute specification:

...
<xsd:attribute name="service" type="xsd:string" use="required" fixed="WFS"/>
...

I've opened an issue to track this, we'll fix it by 1.5.1:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1069

Thanks for reporting :-)
Cheers
Andrea