Styles¶
A style describes how a resource (feature type or coverage) should be symbolized or rendered by the Web Map Service. In GeoServer styles are specified with SLD.
/styles[.<format>]¶
Controls all styles.
Method |
Action |
Status code |
Formats |
Default Format |
Parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GET |
Return all styles |
200 |
HTML, XML, JSON |
HTML |
|
POST |
Create a new style |
201 with |
SLD, XML, JSON, ZIP See note below |
||
PUT |
405 |
||||
DELETE |
405 |
When executing a POST or PUT request with an SLD style, the Content-type header should be set to the mime type identifying the style format. Style formats
supported out of the box include:
SLD 1.0 with a mime type of
application/vnd.ogc.sld+xmlSLD 1.1 / SE 1.1 with a mime type of
application/vnd.ogc.se+xmlSLD package (zip file containing sld and image files used in the style) with a mime type of application/zip
Other extensions (such as css) add support for additional formats.
Parameters¶
name¶
The name parameter specifies the name to be given to the style. This option is most useful when executing a POST request with a style in SLD format, and an appropriate name can be not be inferred from the SLD itself.
raw¶
The raw parameter specifies whether to forgo parsing and encoding of the
uploaded style content. When set to “true” the style payload will be streamed
directly to GeoServer configuration. Use this setting if the content and
formatting of the style is to be preserved exactly. Use this setting with care
as it may result in an invalid and unusable style. The default is “false”.
/styles/<s>[.<format>]¶
Controls a given style.
Method |
Action |
Status code |
Formats |
Default Format |
Parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GET |
Return style |
200 |
SLD, HTML, XML, JSON |
HTML |
|
POST |
405 |
||||
PUT |
Modify style |
200 |
SLD, XML, JSON, ZIP See note above |
||
DELETE |
Delete style |
200 |
Exceptions¶
Exception |
Status code |
|---|---|
GET for a style that does not exist |
404 |
PUT that changes name of style |
403 |
DELETE against style which is referenced by existing layers |
403 |
Parameters¶
purge¶
The purge parameter specifies whether the underlying SLD file for the style should be deleted on disk. Allowable values for this parameter are “true” or “false”. When set to “true” the underlying file will be deleted.
recurse¶
The recurse parameter removes references to the specified style in existing layers. Allowed values for this parameter are “true” or “false”. The default value is “false”.
quietOnNotFound¶
The quietOnNotFound parameter avoids to log an Exception when the style is not present. Note that 404 status code will be returned anyway.
pretty¶
The pretty parameter returns the style in a human-readable format, with proper blank-space and indentation. This parameter has no effect if you request a style in its native format - in this case the API returns the exact content of the underlying file. The HTML, XML, and JSON formats do not support this parameter.
/workspaces/<ws>/styles[.<format>]¶
Controls all styles in a given workspace.
Method |
Action |
Status code |
Formats |
Default Format |
Parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GET |
Return all styles within workspace |
200 |
HTML, XML, JSON |
HTML |
|
POST |
Create a new style within workspace |
201 with |
SLD, XML, JSON, ZIP See note above |
||
PUT |
405 |
||||
DELETE |
405 |
/workspaces/<ws>/styles/<s>[.<format>]¶
Controls a particular style in a given workspace.
Method |
Action |
Status code |
Formats |
Default Format |
Parameters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GET |
Return style |
200 |
SLD, HTML, XML, JSON |
HTML |
|
POST |
405 |
||||
PUT |
Modify style |
200 |
SLD, XML, JSON, ZIP See note above |
||
DELETE |
Delete style |
200 |
Exceptions¶
Exception |
Status code |
|---|---|
GET for a style that does not exist for that workspace |
404 |