OpenLayers. Format. WMSDescribeLayer. v1_1_1

Read SLD WMS DescribeLayer response for WMS 1.1.X WMS 1.1.X is tightly coupled to SLD 1.0.0

Example DescribeLayer request

http://demo.opengeo.org /geoserver /wms?request=DescribeLayer &version=1.1.1 &layers=topp:states

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Summary
OpenLayers. Format. WMSDescribeLayer. v1_1_1 Read SLD WMS DescribeLayer response for WMS 1.1.X WMS 1.1.X is tightly coupled to SLD 1.0.0
Constructor
OpenLayers. Format. WMSDescribeLayer Create a new parser for WMS DescribeLayer responses.
Functions
read Read DescribeLayer data from a string, and return the response.

Constructor

OpenLayers. Format. WMSDescribeLayer

Create a new parser for WMS DescribeLayer responses.

Parameters

options {Object} An optional object whose properties will be set on this instance.

Functions

read

read: function( data )

Read DescribeLayer data from a string, and return the response.  The OGC defines 2 formats which are allowed for output, so we need to parse these 2 types for version 1.1.X

Parameters

data {String} or {DOMElement} data to read/parse.

Returns

{Object} Object with a layerDescriptions property, which holds an Array of {<LayerDescription>} objects which have:

  • {String} owsType: WFS/WCS
  • {String} owsURL: the online resource
  • {String} typeName: the name of the typename on the owsType service
  • {String} layerName: the name of the WMS layer we did a lookup for
read: function( data )
Read DescribeLayer data from a string, and return the response.
Create a new parser for WMS DescribeLayer responses.
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