I forgot to mention one step in the work around. When you save the schema out to disk, comment out the import of the gml namespace. I am working on the fix for this as well.
-Justin Justin Deoliveira wrote: > Hi Robert, > > We are currently trying to resurrect the current schema.xml behavior for > 1.7.3. However for previous versions you can work around the problem by > changing schema.xml to schema.xsd. But, the syntax for the two is > somewhat different. schema.xml is just the complex type definition, > whereas schema.xsd is an entire schema. > > I suggest you do the following: > > 1) do a DFT against your feature type, and save the result to disk > 2) manually change GeometryPropertyType to PolygonPropertyType > 3) copy the file to schema.xsd inside of the featureType directory for > your feature type (parallel to schema.xml) > > And that should get across to openlayers the desired information. Try > that and let me know if that works. > > -Justin > > Roberdt wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I use Geoserver (with an Oracle datastore) to highlight features in an >> OpenLayers app . The geometry type is determined via a DescribeFeatureType >> request, but the request always returns "gml:GeometryPropertyType" for the >> geometry attribute, which effectively highlights polygons as if they were >> points. >> >> My guess was that a custom schema.xml would help solve this problem, but the >> functionality is broken and scheduled to be fixed in 1.7.3. So for now I >> installed a 1.6.5 Geoserver, which picks up my schema.xml but always sets >> the more generic "gml:GeometryPropertyType" instead of >> "gml:PolygonPropertyType". >> >> Comments on issue this http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1124 >> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1124 suggest that this is not a bug >> because Oracle allows storing multiple geometry types in one column. >> >> Is there a way to specify the specific type of my geometry attribute in >> Geoserver when using an Oracle datastore? More or less like the >> '"gml_<column_name>_type" "polygon"' in the METADATA section of a MapServer >> mapfile. >> >> Thanks for helping me out! >> >> Regards, >> Robert van Drunen > > -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
