Cheapo WFS and uDig

Sean Gillies

2005-07-26 00:00

It's been a while, but I have finally made the time to upgrade my Cheapo WFS so that it can feed [screenshot] uDig, Refractions' new desktop GIS app.

I found the oXygen XML editor to be a handy program for finding bugs in my capabilities document. I'm only demo-ing oXygen now but might spring for it if it's equally useful with WMS and SLD. Getting my data into uDig was mostly a matter of tweaking the WFS response and schema into a form that GeoTools would accept. Evidentally, members is not a good typename no matter the namespace.

The service root is

http://sgillies.net:9001/mapserver/members/

and the online resource URL for capabilities, which you may enter in uDig's WFS data source wizard, is

http://sgillies.net:9001/mapserver/members/capabilities.rpy?request=GetCapabilities

MapServer users will need to adjust to the change in the typename, using the following layer definition:

LAYER
   NAME "members"
   TYPE POINT
   STATUS DEFAULT
   CONNECTIONTYPE WFS
   CONNECTION "http://sgillies.net:9001/mapserver/members/features.rpy?"
   METADATA
     "wfs_service" "WFS"
     "wfs_typename" "users"
     "wfs_version" "1.0.0"
   END
   LABELITEM "zco:fullname"
   PROJECTION "+init=epsg:4326" END
END