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I have an Oracle Spatial 11g geodatabase connected to GeoServer 2.8 through Oracle plugin. Some feature classes have field names with % (percent) characters, e.g. NAME%EN or AREA%KM2.

The layer shows up correctly and all its attributes are passed with GetFeatureInfo request. However, I cannot use SLD styling that is based on those fields (e.g. creating thematic map based on AREA%KM2 field).

Does anyone have experience with tables using field names with % characters? They are accepted by Oracle naming standards so I hoped GeoServer will handle them too.

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  • Can you add the error message from the log file.
    – Ian Turton ♦
    Nov 1, 2015 at 17:38
  • The basic error is as follows: 2015-11-01 20:57:11,475 INFO [geoserver.wms] - Request: getServiceInfo 2015-11-01 20:57:11,480 ERROR [geoserver.ows] - org.geoserver.platform.ServiceException: The requested Style can not be used with this layer. The style specifies an attribute of R$POP$DENSITY and the layer is: test:AREAS
    – jan_b
    Nov 1, 2015 at 19:59
  • I tried also with SLD Rest Service (docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/community/sldservice/…), which returned the following errors: 2015-10-31 02:56:55,419 ERROR [geoserver.rest] - Error generating Classification! 2015-10-31 02:56:55,419 DEBUG [geoserver.filters] - Compressing output for mimetype: text/plain
    – jan_b
    Nov 1, 2015 at 20:01
  • Your layer name must be a valid xml name see osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/… but % is illegal
    – Ian Turton ♦
    Nov 1, 2015 at 20:10
  • Layer name does not contain "%", only some field names do. "%" is accepted by Oracle. Moreover, SLD XML file created based on such field names also validates correctly in Geoserver...
    – jan_b
    Nov 1, 2015 at 20:31

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You might be affected by this ticket: https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-5176 In other words, it might well be that we have to quote the attribute names when writing queries

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  • Sounds like a similar issue. So far tried to quote the attributes inside SLD and it didn't help: <ServiceException>The requested Style can not be used with this layer. The style specifies an attribute of &quot;R$POP$DENSITY&quot; and the layer is: test:AREAS</ServiceException>
    – jan_b
    Nov 2, 2015 at 9:42
  • Only a code change can add quotes around the attributes
    – Andrea Aime
    Nov 11, 2015 at 7:30

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