Yes, I do plan on contributing back to this wonderful OpenLayers development effort. I'll write up a ticket and submit a patch when I have it working properly.
Matt Priour -------------------------------------------------- From: "Eric Lemoine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:27 AM To: "mpriour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Difficulties with GetFeatureInfo > Matt, i had never tried Format.GML with GetFeatureInfo responses. And > indeed that'd be great to have support for this. Do you plan to > contribute your work for integration into OpenLayers? Thanks. Eric > > 2008/7/9, mpriour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> I was actually struggling with this same problem this past month. >> You should use: >> >> var xmlResponse = new >> OpenLayers.Format.XML().read(response.responseText); >> >> this will convert the text into a valid xml object. >> From there you can do whatever you want to it. >> >> I am writing some convience methods that extend OpenLayers.Format.GML to >> parse the GML GetFeatureInfo response into predictable js objects. The >> current methods for Format.GML & Format.WFS are not designed to correctly >> parse the entire GML GetFeatureInfo response. They can parse some >> geometry >> or features from portions of the response. >> >> Matt Priour >> Kestrel Computer Consulting >> www.kestrelcompter.com - homepage >> priour.wordpress.com - blog >> >> >> Eric Lemoine-3 wrote: >>> >>> Hi. Have you tried using OpenLayers.Format.GML for de-serializing the >>> response text into feature objects? Eric >>> >>> 2008/7/8, Rick Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> Hullo all, >>>> >>>> I'm using OpenLayers and GeoServer, and am having some trouble with >>>> getting XML data out of GetFeatureInfo. If I ask GeoServer for >>>> INFO_FORMAT of application/vnd.ogc.gml, I get a response back, and it >>>> has the data I desire. But I cannot access those data as XML. I have >>>> to get them via responseText and parse that looking for angle brackets >>>> and the like, which is all very boring, not to say fragile as a dried >>>> leaf. >>>> >>>> Of course, I should be able to make use of the responseXML property, >>>> but that obstinately persists in being NULL, even when the text >>>> response is fine. In fact, the text response is perfectly good XML. As >>>> a big honkin' string. >>>> >>>> I'm using GeoServer 1.5.3 and, er, whichever OL version came with >>>> that. :-) >>>> >>>> Below are the relevant calls. If anyone can assuage my ignorance, good >>>> cheer to them! >>>> >>>> TIA, >>>> >>>> Rick Wayne >>>> UW Soil Science >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> map.events.register('click', map, function (e) { >>>> var url = map.baseLayer.getFullRequestString({ >>>> REQUEST: "GetFeatureInfo", >>>> EXCEPTIONS: "application/vnd.ogc.se_xml", >>>> BBOX: map.getExtent().toBBOX(), >>>> X: e.xy.x, >>>> Y: e.xy.y, >>>> INFO_FORMAT: 'application/vnd.ogc.gml', >>>> // INFO_FORMAT: 'text/plain', >>>> QUERY_LAYERS: map.baseLayer.params.LAYERS, >>>> FEATURE_COUNT: 1, >>>> srs: 'EPSG:26916', >>>> styles: '', >>>> layers: 'mmas:civil', >>>> WIDTH: map.size.w, >>>> HEIGHT: map.size.h}, >>>> "/geoserver/wms" >>>> ); >>>> OpenLayers.loadURL(url, '', this, zoomToFeature, zoomToFeature); >>>> Event.stop(e); >>>> }); >>>> >>>> function zoomToFeature(response) { >>>> // lines = response.responseText.split('\n'); >>>> var txt; >>>> var tag; >>>> var coord_index; >>>> var rest; >>>> var coord_text; >>>> var coords; >>>> var coord_pairs,ll,ur; >>>> >>>> txt = response.responseText; // here should be xml = >>>> response.responseXML; >>>> tag = 'gml:coordinates decimal="." cs="," ts=" ">'; >>>> coord_index = txt.indexOf(tag); >>>> rest = txt.substr(coord_index + tag.length); >>>> end_coord_index = rest.indexOf('<'); >>>> // And so on, too ugly to reveal the rest! >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Difficulties-with-GetFeatureInfo-tp18347813p18353488.html >> Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
