Time for action – managing layers

In the previous section, you created a new style; but it's useless if you can't add a layer to it. We will now update the populatedplace layer by adding the new style.

1. Retrieve information on the layer ne_50m_populated_places.

   curl -u admin:password -XGET -H 'Accept: text/xml' http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/layers/ne_50m_populated_places -o ne_50m_populated_places.xml
   

2. In Python, it is written as follows:

   >>> myUrl =  'http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/layers/ne_50m_populated_places'
   >>> headers = {'Accept: text/xml'}
   >>> resp = requests.get(myUrl, auth=('admin','password'), headers=headers)

3. Open the ne_50m_populated_places.xml file; it starts with a styles collection. You need to insert the code for the new style you created. We don't need all the elements returned from GeoServer. Modify the file as in the following code. (Please note that we inserted the enabled element; the default value being false for it. If you make...