Geoserver : add extra style (SLD) with Curl

Question

In my geoserver I have a layer with a default style (SLD) and i want to add another style to this layer with Curl.

I tried command below with <style></style> instead of <defaultStyle></defaultStyle> but without success :

curl -u admin:pass -XPUT -H 'Content-type: text/xml' -d '<layer><style><name>sld_name</name><workspace>workspace_name</workspace></style></layer>' http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/layers/workspace_name:layer_name

Unfortunately I don't have found help in geoserver cookbook : http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/rest/examples/curl.html.

Anybody know the answer ?

Answer 1

I finally find the solution :

First, to add an extra style additionnal to the defaut style you have to use <styles> (and not <style>):

curl -u admin:pass -XPUT -H 'Content-type: text/xml' -d '<layer><styles><name>sld_name</name><workspace>workspace_name</workspace></styles></layer>' http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/layers/workspace_name:layer_name

Second,you can't use this command x times if you want to add more than one extra style. You have to use only one command with several <names> each time you add a style, here is an example :

curl -u admin:pass -XPUT -H 'Content-type: text/xml' -d '<layer><styles><name>Extra_sldname1</name><name>Extra_sldname2</name><name>Extra_sldname3</name><workspace>workspace_name</workspace></styles></layer>' http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/layers/workspace_name:layer_name

Answer 2

You can also use -XPOST to add new availableStyle to your layer:

curl -v -u admin:geoserver -XPOST -H "Content-type: text/xml" -d "<styles><name>yourstylename</name></style></styles>"
    http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/layers/workspace_name:layer_name/styles

For example:

curl -v -u admin:geoserver -XPOST -H "Content-type: text/xml" -d "<style><name>giant_polygon</name></style>"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/layers/topp:states/styles

This adds the Style "giant polygon" to your topp:states-Layer as an additional available Style.

Notice: if your style is bound to a specific workspace there seems to be a bug (style not found although i used the workspace tags...) but if the style is not assigned to a specific workspace this code works fine.

Answer 3

I the geoserver cookbok there are two curl examples about think that in the curl examples there are two about styles.

• Creating a layer style
• Changing a layer style

If you already have the style uploaded in geoserver to change the style of the layer:

curl -v -u admin:pass -XPUT -H "Content-type: text/xml" -d "<layer><defaultStyle> <name>sld_name</name></defaultStyle></layer>"  http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/layers/acme:roads

The workspace tag that you are using in the XML is only useful when the style is only valid for a given workspace and is not global.