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Web Feature Service (WFS) is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specification for accessing geographic features over the internet.

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How does the audience visualise a WFS in Geoserver?

WFS is meant to transfer raw data with full geometries and attributes, which a client software (not a human) can then either visualize on its own (try for example QGis as a WFS client), analyze and eventually … edit, saving back the changes via the WFS Transaction call. …
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Reduce WFS response size by reducing feature detail

WFS does not have an option to generalize data, there is however a "vec:Simplify" WPS process that can do the job on the fly (at least in the currently supported versions, 2.9.x and above, I cannot remember …
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Finding the capacity of GeoServer to handle load

If you have fixed hardware, create a semi-randomized stress test and increase the number of clients until the server either starts mis-behaving or the throughput does not go up any longer. This docume …
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wfs request on different namespaces - first one successfull, second one crashes

I'm afraid this is a very well known bug for which we have no solution at the moment: https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-4773
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Geoserver's JSON axis order and WFS versions

The WFS protocol is the "previous arrangement", it leaves no space for outputs to have a CRS other than the one requested, and the client doing the request should be aware of it. …
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GeoServer, WFS Raise java.io.IOException: Wrong magic number, expected 9994, got 15

GeoServer is trying to read the shapefile, and finds that the header of the shapefile is not following the specification, but looks like something else. Hyphotesis: The file in question is not reall …
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How to connect GeoServer to a non-spatial database or Web service?

You can do both by writing your own data store: http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/tutorial/datastore/index.html Once it's ready, drop its jar and eventual dependencies inside GeoServer own W …
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How to serve both WFS and WFS-T from one server?

In GeoServer 2.2.0 you should be able to configure the WFS in a different way for different workspaces, give it a try …
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Is there a way to perform a relative XPath expression filter in Geoserver?

A WFS 2.0 compliant service is only required to support a very small subset of the XPath language, from the Filter 2.0 specification: "This International Standard does not require that a filter expression …
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How to receive layer data features in geoserver?

Something like this (might need minor corrections) should work: FeatureTypeInfo info = catalog.getFeatureTypeByName(getLayerId(MockData.BASIC_POLYGONS)); SimpleFeatureSource fs = (SimpleFeatureSource …
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Prevent some layers being modified via WFS? - Geoserver

You can use the security subsystem to disallow writes on a specific set of layers: http://geoserver.geo-solutions.it/edu/en/security/layer_level.html http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/security …
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Filtering WFS exposed data in GeoServer?

user30184 is correct, you should be using CQL_FILTER, some examples here: http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/tutorials/cql/cql_tutorial.html
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Ajax request on WFS with BBOX doesn't change my number of features

It is best to add at the end of the BBOX the SRS of it, as it might not be the same as your data (and WFS defaults to use the SRS of the data if you don't say otherwise). …
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GeoServer WFS can't return results in GeoJSON format

Compare this, failing in the same way: http://demo.geo-solutions.it/geoserver/wfs with a valid request returning GeoJSON: http://demo.geo-solutions.it/geoserver/wfs? … service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=tiger:giant_polygon&outputFormat=JSON …
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bbox for a particular feature of a layer in geoserver

WFS has no way to just provide the bounding box of a feature. However, you can install the WPS protocol, it has a process you can use to just extract the bounding box. …
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