How do I edit info feature attributes in GeoServer with OpenLayers

Question

Can you help me? I have a very difficult problem when doing project...

I have used OpenLayers and GeoServer. When I click in the map to get feature info, I receive the info for the feature and region clicked.

Example: RegionName:Hanoi,Population:500...

I want to know how I can change the attribute value "RegionName" from Hanoi to HaThanh and save it in Geoserver. After I load the map I wish to receive the changed information.

Example: RegionName:HaThanh,Population:500...

Help me! Thanks.

Answer 1

beside @dariapra's answer, there is really good documentation here about OpenLayers WFS-T Using a GeoServer Hosted PostGIS Layer which you should check out.

i hope it helps you...

Answer 2

A technology that can help you with this issue is transactional WFS (WFS-T). In the case of GeoServer, WFS-T requires the use of a PostGIS database as data source. On the client side, the following OpenLayers example can be helpful: WFS Transaction Example.

Answer 3

I guess you might want to save the data to some data source, either a spatial database or some files that can store spatial data(shp, gml, etc.). Geoserver is just a software server used for publishing geospatial data from some spatial data source, but not a place to store the data. If so, then you might want to check out openlayers Requesting Remote Data. You'll also need to do some server-side programming to save the submitted data from the client(browser) to database. Then next time you retrieve maps from Geoserver, it will get updated data from database.