Bug report #13255

Some WFS data not displayed from LuciadLightspeed WFS server

Added by Robin Houtmeyers about 9 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:Web Services clients/WFS
Affected QGIS version:master Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:end of life
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:21316

Description

The WFS data offered by the OGC-compliant LuciadLightspeed WFS server (1.0.0 & 1.1.0) cannot be loaded in QGIS, while it can be opened in clients such as Gaia, ArcMap, Mapinfo, etc. The exact reason is still unknown.

QGIS can retrieve the capabilities; however, when a dataset is selected to be added, an error dialog pops up on top of the map stating that this is not a valid layer and that it cannot be added. Within the server, I can see that the latest request is a DescribeFeatureType request. The response seems ok to me (GML 2 application schema, since WFS 1.0.0 is used).

Server that can be used to reproduce the issue: http://demo.luciad.com:8080/LuciadLightspeedOGC/wfs?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WFS
The tests have been done with QGIS 2.8.2.

wfsok.png (349 KB) Richard Duivenvoorde, 2015-10-20 12:38 AM

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#1 Updated by Richard Duivenvoorde about 9 years ago

  • File wfsok.png added
  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

Hi, I cannot reproduce your problem. Here both in Master and 2.8.3 I have valid response (see screenshot wfsok.png)

Please retest and/or provide more information about your setup

#2 Updated by Robin Houtmeyers about 9 years ago

Thank you for the feedback. I retested the service, and it seems that it only works for the counties layer (which is shown in your screenshot wfsok.png). The other 2 datasets, rivers and cities, are not loaded => an error dialog pops up on top of the map stating that this is not a valid layer and that it cannot be added. Any idea what could be wrong here?

#3 Updated by Richard Duivenvoorde about 9 years ago

Mmm, wanted to try to test again and view the different request/responses.

Service is not available anymore?

Close this issue then?

#4 Updated by Robin Houtmeyers about 9 years ago

Hi Richard, the service should be online: http://demo.luciad.com:8080/LuciadLightspeedOGC/wfs?
Are you not able to access it?

#5 Updated by Richard Duivenvoorde about 9 years ago

Nope, was not available to me (anymore): but now it is... again

#7 Updated by Robin Houtmeyers about 9 years ago

Hmm, there seems to be something wrong with the 1.0.0 content response for the rivers; I was previously testing with 1.1.0. Probably the other clients that I mentioned were using that version instead. I guess this issue can be closed. Sorry for this inconvience.

#8 Updated by Richard Duivenvoorde about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed

no worries. Thanks for testing QGIS :-)

#9 Updated by Robin Houtmeyers almost 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Closed to Reopened

Hi, I am reopening this issue since the QGIS WFS requests mentioned in #6 work ok now (this
issue was due to a misconfiguration of a data path), but I can still only open the counties feature type in QGIS (tested with Lyon). For the rivers and cities feature types, I get the statement that it is not a valid layer.

Any ideas?

#10 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 9 years ago

  • Category changed from Browser to Web Services clients/WFS
  • Affected QGIS version changed from 2.8.2 to master

Robin Houtmeyers wrote:

Hi, I am reopening this issue since the QGIS WFS requests mentioned in #6 work ok now (this
issue was due to a misconfiguration of a data path), but I can still only open the counties feature type in QGIS (tested with Lyon). For the rivers and cities feature types, I get the statement that it is not a valid layer.

Any ideas?

same on master

#11 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Reopened to Feedback

The described server/service is not available anymore, can a new url be provided? thanks.

#12 Updated by Robin Houtmeyers almost 8 years ago

The server is back online; I just verified the requests.

#13 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 8 years ago

Tested with the latest master.

QGIS log reports

2017-01-18T13:04:43 1 Layer extent reported by the server is not correct. You may need to zoom on layer and then zoom out to see all features

that seems a server issue, and if zooming out enough the feature do actually show.

Can we close this?

#14 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 8 years ago

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

Tested with the latest master.

QGIS log reports

2017-01-18T13:04:43 1 Layer extent reported by the server is not correct. You may need to zoom on layer and then zoom out to see all features

that seems a server issue, and if zooming out enough the feature do actually show.

Can we close this?

the "cities" layer does not load and gives an error, but from the log it seems again a server issue.

#16 Updated by Robin Houtmeyers almost 8 years ago

About the layer extent: this seems ok to me at first sight. Any additional info on why it is not correct? Are you also referring to the extent from the capabilities?

#17 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 8 years ago

Robin Houtmeyers wrote:

About the layer extent: this seems ok to me at first sight. Any additional info on why it is not correct? Are you also referring to the extent from the capabilities?

I'm reporting what I see in QGIS (canvas and log), using such server as a normal user would do.

#18 Updated by Robin Houtmeyers almost 8 years ago

I investigated this a bit further for the cities layer. Based on the server logs. the only incoming request I got is a DescribeFeatureType: http://demo.luciad.com:8080/LuciadLightspeedOGC/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&VERSION=1.1.0&TYPENAME=cities
This gives the expected XML Schema for the cities layer, but it seems to trigger an issue client-side.

#19 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago

Robin Houtmeyers wrote:

I investigated this a bit further for the cities layer. Based on the server logs. the only incoming request I got is a DescribeFeatureType: http://demo.luciad.com:8080/LuciadLightspeedOGC/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&VERSION=1.1.0&TYPENAME=cities
This gives the expected XML Schema for the cities layer, but it seems to trigger an issue client-side.

the endpoint is again off-line, so I can't do further tests.

#20 Updated by Robin Houtmeyers over 7 years ago

The server should be online again - I'll make sure to monitor its status the upcoming month and keep it online.

#21 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Subject changed from WFS data not displayed to Some WFS data not displayed from LuciadLightspeed WFS server
  • Status changed from Feedback to Open

Robin Houtmeyers wrote:

The server should be online again - I'll make sure to monitor its status the upcoming month and keep it online.

thanks.
I still see more of the same. Can add polygon and line layer, not the point one.
Seeing messages like "Layer extent reported by the server is not correct. You may need to zoom on layer and then zoom out to see all features that seems a server issue, and if zooming out enough the feature do actually show." and for the point layer "2017-04-30T09:28:00 1 Analysis of DescribeFeatureType response failed for url typename='cities' url='http://demo.luciad.com:8080/LuciadLightspeedOGC/wfs?' version='auto' table="" sql=: Cannot find element 'cities'".

It seems to me a problem in the server configuration (and is known that qgis ogc clients are usually more picky/strict than others), but anyway I leave it open so someone else can have a look at it.

#22 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago

  • Regression? set to No
  • Easy fix? set to No

#23 Updated by Even Rouault about 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

http://demo.luciad.com:8080/LuciadLightspeedOGC/wfs?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WFS currently returns a "HTTP 500 - There seems to be an issue to retrieve a license. Please refer to the console or log files for more information."

javax.servlet.ServletException: There seems to be an issue to retrieve a license. Please refer to the console or log files for more information.
com.luciad.ogc.wfs.TLcdWFSServlet.init(LuciadLightspeed:62)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:620)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:349)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:784)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:802)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1410)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

#24 Updated by Robin Houtmeyers about 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Open

Services is back online; I renewed the license.

#25 Updated by Richard Duivenvoorde about 7 years ago

Hi Robin,

checking this: the describeFeature response for:

http://demo.luciad.com:8080/LuciadLightspeedOGC/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&VERSION=1.0.0&TYPENAME=rivers

contains a tns:rivers

<xsd:complexType name="riversPropertyType"><xsd:sequence><xsd:element ref="tns:rivers" minOccurs="0"/></xsd:sequence><xsd:attributeGroup ref="xlink:simpleAttrs"/></xsd:complexType>

But requesting cities:

http://demo.luciad.com:8080/LuciadLightspeedOGC/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&VERSION=1.1.0&TYPENAME=cities

Does NOT show any notion of 'cities'...

And QGIS tells me (in the Log panels): Analysis of DescribeFeatureType response failed for url restrictToRequestBBOX='1' srsname='OGC:CRS84' typename='cities' url='http://demo.luciad.com:8080/LuciadLightspeedOGC/wfs?' version='1.0.0' table="" sql=: Cannot find element 'cities'

So this is either a configuration problem, or a server bug?
Or (I'm not so much into describeFeatureType requests) is it really a QGIS issue?

No offence, but apparently this is a commercial server provider (as you are talking about licenses)?
Maybe you ask them to let them test their product against other clients (wms/wfs versions)?
And/or use the ogc_cite test suite: http://test.qgis.org/ogc_cite/latest_wms_1_3_0.html

#26 Updated by Robin Houtmeyers about 7 years ago

Hi Richard,

thank you for your analysis. This is indeed commercial software provided by Luciad; I am an employee of this company and previously logged this issue to enhance the OGC WFS interoperability with QGIS. We are familiar with the CITE test suites and do run them on our software.

Based on your tests, it seems we have found a potential cause of the issue => it seems QGIS expects that the XML Schema returned by a DescribeFeatureType response also contains the typename string. In my understanding, the typename is just an identifier for a dataset, independent from the the actual data encoding (which is described by the XML Schema returned by the DescribeFeatureType). In the end, the data returned by GetFeature should be valid according to the XML Schema returned by the corresponding DescribeFeatureType - which is the case with the above request. Whether the typename also occurs in the XML or not should not matter - at least, that is my understanding from the OGC WFS standard.

#27 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed
  • Resolution set to end of life

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