WebGIS Q&A

[#1]

Symptoms

Geoserver WFS service v2.0.0 doesn't work properly with Geospatial Portal, throwing "Service returned exception" messages in the GUI.

Diagnosis

Geoserver cannot handle BBOX properly. Typical error log in Portal:

Request parsing failed
Parsing failed for BBOX: java.lang.NullPointerException

While the POST request seems ok:

<wfs:Query typeNames="p1:States2" srsName="urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326">
    <fes:Filter xmlns:fes="http://www.opengis.net/fes/2.0">
      <fes:BBOX>
        <fes:ValueReference>the_geom</fes:ValueReference>
        <Envelope srsName="urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326" xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/gml">
          <lowerCorner>32.5144371700717 -15.4682436068792</lowerCorner>
          <upperCorner>47.1701988888217 10.1079282681208</upperCorner>
        </Envelope>
      </fes:BBOX>
    </fes:Filter>
  </wfs:Query>
</wfs:GetFeature>

Solution

Disable BBOX filtering for Geoserver WFS by creating a service quirk, e.g.:

<serviceQuirk serviceType="WFS" urlPattern="geoserver" limitByMapRange="false" >
</serviceQuirk>

Because Feature Info tool utilizes BBOX by default, it is necessary to disable this behavior by setting displayInfoForAllLayers to false:

<featureInfo displayInfoForAllLayers="false" featureInfoBufferMultiplier="1" />