Working with Layers

Once you are done with configuring styles, you probably want to apply them to layers. Creating or modifying styles is the last step for data publication. Unsurprisingly, it is possible to perform layer operations with the REST interface.

Managing Layers

In the previous section, you created a new style; however, it is useless if you cannot assign it to a layer. We will now update the populated place layer by adding the new style:

1. Retrieve information on the ne_50m_populated_places layer:

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

2. In Python, use the following script:

      import requests 
      myUrl = 'http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/
       layers/ne_50m_populated_places' 
      headers = {'Accept: text/xml'} 
      resp = requests.get(myUrl, auth=('admin','pwd'),
       headers=headers) 
      if resp.status_code == 200: 
        file = open('ne_50m_populated_places...