Freemarker templates

Freemarker is a simple yet powerful template engine that GeoServer uses for user customization of outputs.

It is possible to use the GeoServer REST API to manage Freemarker templates for catalog resources.

/templates/<template>.ftl

This endpoint manages a template that is global to the entire catalog.

• • Method
  • Action
  • Status Code
  • Formats
  • Default Format
• • GET
  • Return a template
  • 200
• • PUT
  • Insert or update a template
  • 405
• • DELETE
  • Delete a template
  • 405

Identical operations apply to the following endpoints:

• Workspace templates---/workspaces/<ws>/templates/<template>.ftl
• Vector store templates---/workspaces/<ws>/datastores/<ds>/templates/<template>.ftl
• Feature type templates---/workspaces/<ws>/datastores/<ds>/featuretypes/<f>/templates/<template>.ftl
• Raster store templates---/workspaces/<ws>/coveragestores/<cs>/templates/<template>.ftl
• Coverage templates---/workspaces/<ws>/coveragestores/<cs>/coverages/<c>/templates/<template>.ftl

/templates[.<format>]

This endpoint manages all global templates.

• • Method
  • Action
  • Status Code
  • Formats
  • Default Format
• • GET
  • Return templates
  • 200
  • HTML, XML, JSON
  • HTML

Identical operations apply to the following endpoints:

• Workspace templates---/workspaces/<ws>/templates[.<format>]
• Vector store templates---/workspaces/<ws>/datastores/<ds>/templates[.<format>]
• Feature type templates---/workspaces/<ws>/datastores/<ds>/featuretypes/<f>/templates[.<format>]
• Raster store templates---/workspaces/<ws>/coveragestores/<cs>/templates[.<format>]
• Coverage templates---/workspaces/<ws>/coveragestores/<cs>/coverages/<c>/templates[.<format>]