[wfs-dev] summary of changes from wfs 1.0 to 1.1?

Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos pvretano at cubewerx.com
Mon Oct 16 11:51:18 EDT 2006


Chris,

Good summary.

However, F.Y.I, joins are being removed from the specification in the 
next release.

Ciao.

Chris Holmes wrote:
> I just pulled this together from some notes that I made for our 
> implementation, so it's a bit rough, but should give a decent starting 
> point.  We've got a basic WFS (caps, describe and getfeature) on a 
> branch in GeoServer, and are close to done with transaction stuff. 
> Justin may have some more to add, as he's been doing the implementation.
> 
> 
> Soap Wrappers     For all operations
>     
> Get Feature WFS 1.1   
>     Results as hits
>     SortBy
>     Reprojection
>     * Xlink properties (get gml object stuff)
>     GML 3.1.1
>     
> Describe WFS 1.1   
>     GML 3.1.1 (no other changes afaik)
>     
> Transaction WFS 1.1   
>     Reprojection in Insert
>     IdGen options:
> 
> GenerateNew (default)
>   The web feature service shall generate unique identifiers for all 
> newly inserted feature instances.
> UseExisting
>    In response to an <Insert> operation, a web feature service shall use 
> the gml:id attribute values on inserted features and elements. If any of 
> those IDs duplicates the ID of a feature or element already stored in 
> the WFS, the WFS shall raise an exception.
> ReplaceDuplicate
>    A WFS client can request that the WFS generate IDs to replace the 
> input values of gml:id attributes of feature elements that duplicate the 
> ID of a feature or element already stored in the WFS, instead of raising 
> an exception, by setting the idgen attribute of the InsertElementType to 
> the value "ReplaceDuplicate".
> 
>     
> LockFeature WFS 1.1    No changes, except GML 3.1.1
>     
> GetGMLObject WFS 1.1   
>     New Operation (that doesn't make much sense imho, we're not 
> implementing for WFS 1.1) tells the server to return remote xlinks.
>     
>     
> GetCapabilities WFS 1.1   
>     SRS reporting
>     GetGMLObject caps mods
>     Version negotiation (not new, but wasn't an issue before with just 
> one version of spec)
>     
>     
> Filter 1.1   
>      GML 3.1.1 parser
>      SortBy
>      Joins
>     
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> Ian Turton wrote:
>> Does any one have a document that summarises the changes between the
>> WFS 1.0 and 1.1 specifications? If not I guess I'll have to read
>> through the specs and the change requests and work it out but
>> obviously if someone else has already done this that would be great.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ian
>>
> 
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