[udig-devel] Unable to connect to WFS server

[Fabio Da Soghe]

Hello list.

I'm using GeoServer 1.3.2 to serve my PostGIS (1.1) layers as WFS data sources.
I'm able to insert, update, delete features both with SQL and with WFS calls.
I successfully connect uDig (1.1 RC2) to my layers via PostGIS, but when I try to use the WFS interface I get a red cross over the layer title, and nothing is rendered on the map view.
>From the uDig error log, it seems the problem was around this:

[...]
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Could not find element handler for http://www.sysgroup.it/GMLDevDataModel : name as a child of gmlfeature1_Type.
	at org.geotools.xml.XMLSAXHandler.startElement(XMLSAXHandler.java:334)
[...]

http://www.sysgroup.it/GMLDevDataModel is my namespace.

I've read issue UDIG-939 (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/UDIG-939): "WFS has problems parsing features when the default geometry type is Geometry".
I just had that type of geometry: my postGIS field was a POLYGON type, so GeoServer advertised it as of XML type gml:PolygonPropertyType. So I changed to MULTIPOLYGON and now the WFSDescribeFeatureType returns this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema targetNamespace="http://www.sysgroup.it/GMLDevDataModel"
	xmlns:ddm="http://www.sysgroup.it/GMLDevDataModel" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
	xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified"
	attributeFormDefault="unqualified" version="1.0">
	<xs:import namespace="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
		schemaLocation="http://beaker.sysgroup.it:80/geoserver/schemas/gml/2.1.2/feature.xsd" />
	<xs:complexType name="gmlfeature1_Type">
		<xs:complexContent>
			<xs:extension base="gml:AbstractFeatureType">
				<xs:sequence>
					<xs:element type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" name="name" nillable="false"
						maxOccurs="1" />
					<xs:element type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" name="description" nillable="false"
						maxOccurs="1" />
					<xs:element type="gml:MultiPolygonPropertyType" minOccurs="1" name="extentOf"
						nillable="false" maxOccurs="1" />
				</xs:sequence>
			</xs:extension>
		</xs:complexContent>
	</xs:complexType>
	<xs:element name='gmlfeature1' type='ddm:gmlfeature1_Type' substitutionGroup='gml:_Feature' />
</xs:schema>

But I keep getting the above error. I really cannot think anything else to try (I'm working exclusively on this from yesterday).

Has anybody any clue?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Best regards,

Fabio Da Soghe