Hi, I was looking into the changes necessary to support the creation of a new feature type via REST and found some strong limitations in AttributeTypeInfo that do not allow even a partial implementation.
The idea was that we could POST a feature type description to a datastore URL to create the new feature type. Now, look at the feature type description format here: http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/_downloads/featuretype_xml.txt Seeing anything missing in the attribute type descriptions? Like... the data type, for example? :-p In order to support a minimal type creation imho the attribute type description should contain: - the data type (as a java class) - the length restriction (important for any real world usage of string types) Very much welcomed would be also the number of decimals if we want to be able to create NUMBER(x,y) columns in a database. Oh hum... looks like a trunk only change to me? Well, in the meantime I'll play with a type creation GUI :-p Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
