Sorry, I meant GeoTools WMS client, not GeoServer.
I'll try your other suggestion though.
On 26 August 2010 15:20, David Winslow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Assuming that "the GeoServer WMS client" means the OpenLayers preview, you
> can still add a style parameter by hand-editing the URL. I understand that
> there are a number of situations where this is not a useful solution.
>
> I suppose you're already aware, but it should be possible to change the
> default style for the created layer "after the fact" by going into the web
> ui.
>
> Finally, for most resource types the REST API supports "partial" document
> updates, where elements omitted from the uploaded document will be
> unchanged. So you may be able to get away with a string template that just
> inserts the right style name and leaves everything else alone. There have
> been some bugs with this in the past though.
>
> --
> David Winslow
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
>
> ps: how are you automating this? there are geoserver rest config client
> libraries in Java, Python, Groovy, and PHP floating around that could
> probably make this easy on you.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Jon Britton
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi David, thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately I can't modify my
>> request, as I'm using the GeoServer WMS client, and an exception get's
>> thrown when I create the WebMapServer object.
>>
>> As for your second suggestion, I wouldn't really know how to do this and
>> don't really have time at the moment to really look into it. I'll probably
>> just deal with the XML myself for now.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>> On 26 August 2010 13:55, David Winslow <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Some alternatives:
>>>
>>> * Modify your client to request the "raster" style explicitly when making
>>> WMS requests
>>> * Submit a patch for RESTConfig to setup the style properly (it's already
>>> dealing with the configuration objects, so you can avoid having to parse XML
>>> this way)
>>> * Use .json instead of .xml; depending on the language this may be
>>> simpler to deal with.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Winslow
>>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Jon Britton <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently using the REST API to add a GeoTiff to GeoServer.
>>>> However, when I try and access it using WMS it doesn't work because it has
>>>> no default style. The only way I can think of is to GET the layers XML,
>>>> add
>>>> the default style then PUT the XML back. This would require some XML
>>>> parsing though, which I'd rather avoid if I can. Is there a simpler way of
>>>> doing this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>>
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