Bruce, thanks for the confirmation. I have reported this bug in Jira:
[GEOT-5308] app-schema Vocab function does not honour relative vocabulary properties file path https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-5308 Kind regards, Ben. On 18/11/15 10:59, bruce.sim...@csiro.au wrote: > Thanks Ben, > Putting the absolute path worked without the chmod: > <AttributeMapping> > <targetAttribute>om:observedProperty</targetAttribute> > <ClientProperty> > <name>xlink:href</name> > <value>Vocab(METHOD, 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software > Foundation\Tomcat > 8.0\webapps\geoserver\data\workspaces\om\OM_Observation\mapping.properties')</value> > </ClientProperty> > </AttributeMapping> > > Can you report this as a bug change request for me? > > Cheers > Bruce Simons > Information Modeller > CSIRO Land and Water/ Environmental Information Infrastructures > E: bruce.sim...@csiro.au T: +61 3 9252 6514 M: +61 475 954 391 > PO Box 56, Highett, Victoria, 3190 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Caradoc-Davies [mailto:b...@transient.nz] > Sent: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 5:41 AM > To: Simons, Bruce (L&W, Clayton) <bruce.sim...@csiro.au> > Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Jody Garnett > <jody.garn...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] app-schema mapping.properties file location > > Bruce, > > in a nutshell: ugly and not as documented, but it should work if you use an > absolute path. > > The documentation claims that the properties file can be an absolute path or > relative to the mapping file, but I had a look in the implementation and I > see no evidence of handling of paths relative to the mapping file: > http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/data/app-schema/cql-functions.html > > Even the test coverage is relative to the home directory of the GeoTools > module. Whatever you pass as the properties file "URI" (and it is not a > URI) is used raw as a path; if relative it is relative to the current working > directory of the process (not useful), and if absolute it is the absolute > path on the filesystem (ugly but workable). > > For example, if GeoServer is running in Tomcat 7 on Debian and you put the > mapping file in the root of the data directory, you might have something like > this: > > <OCQL>Vocab(ABBREVIATION, > '/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geoserver/data/mapping.properties')</OCQL> > > You may also need to change the permissions to make sure Tomcat can read the > file: > > chmod 644 /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geoserver/data/mapping.properties > > Kind regards, > Ben. > > On 17/11/15 16:50, bruce.sim...@csiro.au wrote: >> The Geoserver app-schema documentation >> (http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/data/app-schema/cql-functions.html) >> has the example: >> <OCQL>Vocab(ABBREVIATION, '/test-data/mapping.properties')</OCQL> >> >> Where does this mapping.properties file go in the geoserver/data directory >> structure? >> Wherever I put it I get the error: >> "Error applying mapping with targetAttribute om:observedProperty Argument >> "value" should not be null" >> >> Cheers >> Bruce Simons >> Information Modeller >> CSIRO Land and Water/ Environmental Information Infrastructures >> E: bruce.sim...@csiro.au<mailto:bruce.sim...@csiro.au> T: +61 3 9252 >> 6514 M: +61 475 954 391 PO Box 56, Highett, Victoria, 3190 >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -------- >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geoserver-users mailing list >> Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users >> > > -- > Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> > Director > Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand > -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2-D/3-D games for multiple OSs. Then get your creation into app stores sooner, with many ways to monetize. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741551&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
