Hi Richard,
you can do it but not via the user interface (at least at the moment).
Most configuration elements have a "metadataMap" where anything can be
stored, e.g,
if you check the xml config of a feature type you'll probably see something
like this:
<metadata>
<entry key="cachingEnabled">false</entry>
</metadata>
This keeps GWC pluggable, as it's not part of the base information model.
In that map yon can place whatever you want... from the REST API only
though.
We have been discussing making the map contents UI editable a few times
already at GeoSolutions,
in the context of adding in there info to enrich the CSW outputs, maybe
with some configuration
on which fields to show, and to build a form to edit them in the UI (e.g.,
some might be using a dropdown,
and so on). But we so far failed to gather someone interested in funding
this activity.
Your use case seems similar (although I guess you'd be happy with just
exposing a single text field).
Cheers
Andrea
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Devs,
>
> Is it possible to add an extra (hidden) 'field' in the Layer gui of
> Geoserver, one that does NOT show up in GetCapabilities response.
>
> Context: having Geoserver with a big database-datastore, it is often
> hard to track down the right view or table name from the Geoserver
> layer. Als the full path to the ETL script to load the data can be
> interesting to store.
>
> We did(!) put the Table/View names in the 'abstract' field, but a
> security auditor told us to 'hide' such information as it revealed our
> internal datastructure....
>
> So we have been looking now in adding text (or an url) in the geoserver
> admin interface to hold this (internal!) information.
> Geoserver admins should be able to see/edit that field, but normal users
> should not see this (when they should examine the getcapabilities output
> for example).
>
> So Questions:
> - are other people see this as something that is helpfull or a good/bad
> idea?
> - is it already possible? (we tried all fields in the admin interface,
> but all show up in the capabilities, also in the community modules I
> could not find something).
>
> Thanks for any input/ideas,
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
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