Using feature types

Feature types are strictly related to data stores; the latter are the data containers and the former are geometrical homogeneous datasets. In some cases, there is a one-to-one relation among feature types and data stores, as in the data store for the single shapefile of Natural Earth roads that we created. More often, a data store contains many feature types. As with other resources, you can use REST operations to list information, add and delete items, and modify the configuration.

The resources are exposed as follows:

    /workspaces/<ws>/datastores/featuretypes/<ft> 

Here, ws means a workspace existing in your system and ft is the feature type on which you want to perform the operation.

Retrieving information about feature types uses the GET operation as used by the previous resources. The output is quite long, depending on how many attributes it holds. It looks as follows:

      <featureTypes> 
        <featureType> 
          <name>ne_10m_railroads...