I’m running QGIS 2.18.15 against Geoserver 2.12.1 (full version details below). I have a custom layer serving a single feature type with an Id, Location (geometry) and name (see GML below). When I try ‘Add WFS layer’ pointing to the geoserver I get the errors (see below) The QGIS error references Complex Features, which I’ve seen elsewhere cannot be imported directly. If this is true, how can I get my feature layer to integrate with QGIS? I’ve seen reference to GDAL and GMLAS, although the later seems to be a command line tool for XML to GML conversion. If this is not the way to go, can QGIS be convinced to accept a Geometry/Point? QGIS error 2018-02-20T11:12:50 1 Analysis of DescribeFeatureType response failed for url srsname='EPSG:4326' typename='trueDb:Pole' url='http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wfs' version='auto' table="" sql=: it is probably a schema for Complex Features And in the geoserver log 20 Feb 11:12:38 INFO [org.geoserver.wfs] - Request: getServiceInfo 20 Feb 11:12:38 INFO [org.geoserver.wfs] - Request: getCapabilities acceptVersions: version[0] = 2.0.0version[0] = 1.1.0version[0] = 1.0.0 baseUrl = http://localhost:8080/geoserver/ service = WFS 20 Feb 11:12:50 INFO [org.geoserver.wfs] - Request: getServiceInfo 20 Feb 11:12:50 INFO [org.geoserver.wfs] - Request: getCapabilities acceptVersions: version[0] = 2.0.0version[0] = 1.1.0version[0] = 1.0.0 baseUrl = http://localhost:8080/geoserver/ service = WFS 20 Feb 11:12:50 INFO [org.geoserver.wfs] - Request: getServiceInfo 20 Feb 11:12:50 INFO [org.geoserver.wfs] - Request: describeFeatureType service = WFS version = 2.0.0 baseUrl = http://localhost:8080/geoserver/ typeName[0] = {trueDb}Pole outputFormat = application/gml+xml; version=3.2 20 Feb 11:12:50 WARN [org.geoserver.wfs] - Could not build xml schema for type: Pole java.lang.NullPointerException: Could not find a type for property: Location of type: org.opengis.geometry.primitive.Point … GML result of manual browser request <wfs:FeatureCollection xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/wfs" xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs" xmlns:trueDb="trueDb" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="trueDb http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wfs?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=DescribeFeatureType&typeName=trueDb%3APole http://www.opengis.net/wfs http://localhost:8080/geoserver/schemas/wfs/1.0.0/WFS-basic.xsd"> <gml:boundedBy> <gml:null>unknown</gml:null> </gml:boundedBy> <gml:featureMember> <trueDb:Pole fid="1425580"> <trueDb:Location> <gml:Point srsName="http://www.opengis.net/gml/srs/epsg.xml#4326"> <gml:coordinates xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" decimal="." cs="," ts=" ">-2.48143876,51.37922549</gml:coordinates> </gml:Point> </trueDb:Location> <trueDb:Name>GPS0017</trueDb:Name> </trueDb:Pole> </gml:featureMember> …. Versions QGIS QGIS version 2.18.15 QGIS code branch Release 2.18 Compiled against Qt 4.8.6 Running against Qt 4.8.6 Compiled against GDAL/OGR 2.1.3 Running against GDAL/OGR 2.1.3 Compiled against GEOS 3.6.2-CAPI-1.10.2 Running against GEOS 3.6.1-CAPI-1.10.1 r0 PostgreSQL Client Version 9.3.4 SpatiaLite Version 4.3.0a QWT Version 6.1.3 PROJ.4 Version 492 QScintilla2 Version 2.9.3 GeoServer Build Information GeoServer Version 2.12.1 Git Revision 5927e49e781ddcdbf9213d32a439418347c17480 Build Date 21-Nov-2017 22:02 GeoTools Version 18.1 (rev 306cf3bdde1bee0110dc1c3ba77819f1e294a45b) GeoWebCache Version 1.12.1 (rev 1.12.x/22d18b47c9e80316d563c28d280602cb3dde624c)