Dear developers, a few days ago I opened GEOS-7216: WFS GetCapabilities throws NPE if published layer has no geometry <https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-7216>.
As I mentioned in the issue description, there may be situations when a user might legitimately want to publish a geometryless layer (e.g. the GeoSciML's GeologicEvent feature type). This thread <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Publish-PostGIS-data-without-Geometry-td5211377.html> also confirms that should be possible to do so. Now, if one tries to publish a geometryless layer through the web UI, nothing can go wrong, as the form validation forces the user to define at least a declared SRS and a lat/lon bounding box. However, through the REST API it is possible to mess things up and publish a layer with no SRS and no lat/lon bounding box, which results in the NPE I reported in the issue. The simplest fix I can come up with is to set the declared SRS to a default value (EPSG:4326? EPSG:404000?) if none was found; basically this means adding an else block to this if statement in org.geoserver.catalog.CatalogBuilder: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/c8013c078da0c86b9b1e29913a75fabb7f8f9c9a/src/main/src/main/java/org/geoserver/catalog/CatalogBuilder.java#L653 This is enough to ensure that a lat/lon bbox will be computed and so the NPE will not be thrown anymore. An alternative could be to apply the same logic not in CatalogBuilder (gs-main module), but in the REST resources handling feature types, org.geoserver.catalog.rest.FeatureTypeResource and org.geoserver.catalog.rest.DataStoreFileResource (gs-restconfig module). Any thoughts? -- Best regards, Stefano Costa == GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visithttp://goo.gl/it488V for more information. == Dott. Stefano Costa Senior Software Engineer GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 http://www.geo-solutions.ithttp://twitter.com/geosolutions_it ------------------------------------------------------- AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003. The information in this message and/or attachments, is intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s) and may be confidential or proprietary in nature or covered by the provisions of privacy act (Legislative Decree June, 30 2003, no.196 - Italy's New Data Protection Code).Any use not in accord with its purpose, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or either dissemination, either whole or partial, is strictly forbidden except previous formal approval of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please contact immediately the sender by telephone, fax or e-mail and delete the information in this message that has been received in error. The sender does not give any warranty or accept liability as the content, accuracy or completeness of sent messages and accepts no responsibility for changes made after they were sent or for other risks which arise as a result of e-mail transmission, viruses, etc.
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