[udig-devel] [jira] Created: (UDIG-903) WMS SLD Support

[Paul Ramsey (JIRA)]

WMS SLD Support
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         Key: UDIG-903
         URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/UDIG-903
     Project: uDIG
        Type: New Feature

  Components: wms  
    Versions: UDIG 1.2    
    Reporter: Paul Ramsey
 Assigned to: Richard Gould 


It should be possible to create an SLD document, and request the remote WMS server use that document for rendering certain layers.  This is only really possible where the WMS supports DescribeLayer and DescribeLayer itself returns a reference to a WFS source, which in turn supports DescribeFeatureType.  At that point it is possible to create a valid SLD for the layer.
Once you have gotten that far, you can:
1 - Create the SLD and post it to a publicly accessible server. Then do a WMS GetMap that references the now publicly accessible SLD document.  This is probably the method with the widest likelihood of success, given what is currently implemented in various WMS servers.
2 - Inline the SLD document in the GetMap request itself.  For HTTP GET, this seems likely to blow up the URL size limit.
3 - Use the PutStyles and WMS HTTP POST options.  This is the most "elegant" but is less widely implemented than the remotely referenced document method.


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