Re: [Geoserver-users] Geoserver adding new field to a layer externally

[Alexandre G. <ale...@gm...>]

Perhaps you should try the Rest API to trigger the updated.

Le mer. 18 août 2021 à 19:01, Jose Macchi <jos...@gm...> a écrit :

> Hi Vikram,
>
> I think that if you edit the layer and reload the featurestype (check
> image below, as a sample...at the end of the table, a link)..it should read
> the changes your applied to the shapefiles, and so, detect the new field
> added
>
> [image: image.png]
> (the reload feature type link should detect the changes in the DBF
> associated to the shapefile, and list it).
> Is that what you wanted to do ?
>
> Regards
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 1:16 PM Vikram <vik...@fl...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a geoserver layer which feeds off a shapefile. When I add a new
>> field to the shapefile externally, I want it to be reflected in the
>> geoserver layer. Does anyone have an idea about this ?
>>
>> I see that one can externally add the new field to the featuretype.xml
>> file of the layer and that does the trick. But is that the only way ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Vikram
>>
>>
>>
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