Thanks a lot actually I didn't know that geoserver needed the valid DBF
date format. It works now.

Thanks again.

Claire


2014-03-26 10:53 GMT+00:00 Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:33 AM, cetienne <claire.etienn...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have a shapefile in geoserver that has a Date field. Unfortunately, I
>> think there is an issue with the date format supported in geoserver since
>> when I am looking at the Openlayers preview of my shapefile layer the Date
>> field is empty (when you click on your layer in the OpenLayers preview a
>> table is displayed containing all information of the .dbf file).
>>
>
> Date fields should be supported, but only if they are part of the standard
> DBF format.
> Some programs generate extended formats for them, in that case we might
> not be able to read that field, or recognize it as a valid date
>
>
>>
>> I was reading some stuff about Geoserver supported Date format and it is
>> said that the format "yyyy-mm-ddTHH-MM-SSZ" is supported, but it doesn't
>> work.
>>
>
> Hum no, this would not be a valid DBF date format, the format you cite is
> the ISO one used by the GML encoders.
> The valid DBF date format, from the spec, is
> "8 bytes - date stored as a string in the format YYYYMMDD."
>
> Could you share the shapefile for further analysis?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
> --
> ==
> Meet us at GEO Business 2014! in London! Visit http://goo.gl/fES3aK
> for more information.
> ==
>
> Ing. Andrea Aime
> @geowolf
> Technical Lead
>
> GeoSolutions S.A.S.
> Via Poggio alle Viti 1187
> 55054  Massarosa (LU)
> Italy
> phone: +39 0584 962313
> fax: +39 0584 1660272
> mob: +39  339 8844549
>
> http://www.geo-solutions.it
> http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>



-- 
Claire ETIENNE
Ingénieur ENSEEIHT spécialisation Informatique et Mathématiques appliquées
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Geoserver-users mailing list
Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users

Reply via email to