On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 12:19 PM Lars I. Nielsen, LIFA A/S via
Geoserver-users <geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> I then turned to using paging, but unfortunately Geoserver 2.16 (and
> later?) doesn’t support the OGC standard way of doing so (with “next” and
> “previous” tags returned).
>

This surprised me.... there is code building the next/prev links in the
core of the WFS implementation, but indeed they don't show up in the GML
3.2 output for
some reason. Have no clue why, nor have I found an open ticket about it...
could you create one in Jira
<https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/projects/GEOS/summary>?
The weird thing is that there are tests checking the presence of next/prev
links, and they are passing,
but just like you, I cannot see them in the first layer I've tried on a
demo server.... probably something related to the dataset, the data source,
or well.. who knows what.


> Finally I’ve been looking into creating a “manual” paging mechanism, but
> can only provide a “startIndex” and “count”. I.e., I submit no “sortBy”
> parameter.
>
>
>
> There are 229 themes in all, and their structures are often vastly
> different. No single field name is common to all themes, not for filtering,
> not for sorting.
>
> The most common fieldname is only present in 159 themes.
>
>
>
> Even though most of the themes seem to work, some don’t, throwing an
> exception about something like a missing “natural sorting order”.
>
> Which tells me that something might still work behind the scenes.
>

It means there is no primary key configured in the database for this
feature type, which causes lack of stable identifiers, and also
prevents paging. The reason why you get the error is that without a stable
sorting key the data backend can return data in whatever order
it pleases, and change it as we change the requested page (there are no
guarantees).
When the client provides no sort-by, GeoServer resorts to using the primary
key as the "natural sorting order", and if the PK is missing,
then you get the error above.

Regards,

Andrea

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