[GIS] Updating a layer’s bounding box in GeoServer after WFS-T insert

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I'm creating a data store in GeoServer from an OpenLayers DrawFeature control, using WFS-T to save the geometry into GeoServer. This works great, except the data store's bounding box doesn't get set in GeoServer. However, if you create a data store from a shapefile, the bounding box gets automatically set. I know you can go into the GeoServer admin page and tell it to calculate the bounding box, but I need a way to do it programmatically.

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Unfortunately there is no easy way to do it (no REST api and no URL hacking thanks to Wicket [pun intended]). In case you feel like coding, the source of the webui that handles the update of the bbox is in BasicResourceConfig.java.

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Geoserver Layer Bounding Box – How to Programmatically Set Bounding Box in PostGIS

This is already an old question, but I haven't found many example documenting this on he Web. On GeoServer version 2.5.1 the following should work (it should also work with older versions). :

Example XML

<layerGroup>

<workspace>workspace</workspace>
<name>014531_layer_group</name>
<layers>
<layer>014531_layer</layer>
<layer>014531_layer_watermark</layer>
</layers>
<styles>
<style>raster</style>
<style>sld_watermark</style>
</styles>
<bounds>
<minx>12.91</minx>
<miny>-6.97</miny>
<maxx>14.32</maxx>
<maxy>-5.44</maxy>
<crs>EPSG:4326</crs>
</bounds>
</layerGroup>

Example REST statement

sudo curl -v -u user:pwd -XPOST -d @yourxmlfile.xml -H "Content-type: text/xml" http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/layergroups

It doesn't take the bounding box of the underlying layer, but you could retrieve it by using a Selenium script

[GIS] Can’t see WFS-T layer with OpenLayers and GeoServer (Windows)

To expand on my earlier comment for the benefit of Janne and other readers.

When you use OpenLayers to make a WFS (and WFS-T) request you need to be aware of the same-origin policy, this is a clever way to prevent unscrupulous web sites from running malicious javascript exploits on your web browser. Basically what it says is that if a javascript app wants to talk to the network it can only talk to the machine and port combination that it was served from.

This means that if you load a page from http:// localhost:8080 then that is the only place that your script can send requests to. Alternatively if you load your page from file://mytomcat/webapps/mypage.html your script can only send requests to file://mytomcat/... which isn't actually a server so it won't work.

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