Layers¶
A layer is a published resource (feature type or coverage).
/layers[.<format>]¶
Controls all layers.
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- Method
- Action
- Status code
- Formats
- Default Format
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- GET
- Return all layers
- 200
- HTML, XML, JSON
- HTML
-
- POST
- 405
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- PUT
- 405
-
- DELETE
- 405
/layers/<l>[.<format>]¶
Controls a particular layer.
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- Method
- Action
- Status code
- Formats
- Default Format
- Parameters
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- GET
- Return layer
l - 200
- HTML, XML, JSON
- HTML
- quietOnNotFound
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- POST
- 405
-
- PUT
- Modify layer
l - 200
- XML,JSON
-
- DELETE
- Delete layer
l - 200
- recurse
Exceptions¶
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- Exception
- Status code
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- GET for a layer that does not exist
- 404
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- PUT that changes name of layer
- 403
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- PUT that changes resource of layer
- 403
Parameters¶
recurse¶
The recurse parameter recursively deletes all styles referenced by the specified layer. Allowed values for this parameter are "true" or "false". The default value is "false".
quietOnNotFound¶
The quietOnNotFound parameter avoids to log an Exception when the layer is not present. Note that 404 status code will be returned anyway.
/layers/<l>/styles[.<format>]¶
Controls all styles in a given layer.
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- Method
- Action
- Status code
- Formats
- Default Format
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- GET
- Return all styles for layer
l - 200
- SLD, HTML, XML, JSON
- HTML
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- POST
- Add a new style to layer
l - 201, with
Locationheader - XML, JSON
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- PUT
- 405
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- DELETE
- 405