Layers

A layer is a published resource (feature type or coverage).

/layers[.<format>]

Controls all layers.

Method	Action	Status code	Formats	Default Format
GET	Return all layers	200	HTML, XML, JSON	HTML
POST		405
PUT		405
DELETE		405

/layers/<l>[.<format>]

Controls a particular layer.

Method	Action	Status code	Formats	Default Format	Parameters
GET	Return layer l	200	HTML, XML, JSON	HTML	quietOnNotFound
POST		405
PUT	Modify layer l	200	XML,JSON
DELETE	Delete layer l	200			recurse

Exceptions

Exception	Status code
GET for a layer that does not exist	404
PUT that changes name of layer	403
PUT that changes resource of layer	403

Parameters

recurse

The recurse parameter recursively deletes all styles referenced by the specified layer. 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 layer is not present. Note that 404 status code will be returned anyway.

/layers/<l>/styles[.<format>]

Controls all styles in a given layer.

Method	Action	Status code	Formats	Default Format
GET	Return all styles for layer l	200	SLD, HTML, XML, JSON	HTML
POST	Add a new style to layer l	201, with Location header	XML, JSON
PUT		405
DELETE		405