Hi all, I admit up front that this inquiry might partly be my ignorance on the subject, but when OpenLayers.Format.WFS serializes a polygon insert request it looks like:
<wfs:Insert> <feature:Geofence xmlns:feature="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapserver";> <feature:the_geom> <gml:MultiPolygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml";> <gml:polygonMember> <gml:Polygon> <gml:outerBoundaryIs> <gml:LinearRing> <gml:coordinates decimal="." cs="," ts=" ">-105.662109375,40.1591796875 -107.068359375,38.2255859375 -103.640625,37.7861328125 -105.662109375,40.1591796875</gml:coordinates> </gml:LinearRing> </gml:outerBoundaryIs> </gml:Polygon> </gml:polygonMember> </gml:MultiPolygon> </feature:the_geom> </feature:Geofence> </wfs:Insert> This appears to be getting done by OpenLayers.Format.WFS.createFeatureXML(feature) and the namespace is hardcoded to "feature:..." My question is why this namespace and not the wfs namespace and XML something more like: <wfs:Insert typeName="Geofence"> <wfs:Property> <wfs:Name>the_geom</wfs:Name> <wfs:Value> <gml:MultiPolygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml";> <gml:polygonMember> <gml:Polygon> <gml:outerBoundaryIs> <gml:LinearRing> <gml:coordinates decimal="." cs="," ts=" ">-105.662109375,40.1591796875 -107.068359375,38.2255859375 -103.640625,37.7861328125 -105.662109375,40.1591796875</gml:coordinates> </gml:LinearRing> </gml:outerBoundaryIs> </gml:Polygon> </gml:polygonMember> </gml:MultiPolygon> </wfs:Value> </wfs:Property> <wfs:Property> <wfs:Name>name</wfs:Name> <wfs:Value>noname</wfs:Value> </wfs:Property> </wfs:Insert> This would more closely follow the <wfs:Modify> format and namespace. So why should anyone care? mostly the later is much easier to parse as the tags are predetermined by the wfs namespace and not consturcted from the arbitrary attributes used in the layer definition. I am interested in the "why of this" so I better understand how all this works. Reading the code, it looks like this change can be done by overloading createFeatureXML with code that generates the later XML above, so I could make the change myself outside of the OL code base for testing and review. If I did that would it be an appropriate change to svn? A change to svn, would probably break any existing services that depend on the existing format for <wfs:Insert>. Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this. -Steve W _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
