DescribeFeatureType - Latest

Use the DescribeFeatureType request to obtain a schema description for features serviced by the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS). The schema description describes how feature instances are expected to be encoded (described) on input and how feature instances are generated on output. WFS is able, upon request, to describe the structure of any feature type it can service. The service returns the metadata (description) of a specific feature type (content) based on the returned GetCapabilities.

POST Request

The sample below calls the DescribeFeatureType method to get the description of a feature type called World. The response is an XML Schema. The request schema is defined by the following XML Schema fragment:

<xsd:elementname="DescribeFeatureType" type="wfs:DescribeFeatureTypeType"/>
<xsd:complexTypename="DescribeFeatureTypeType">
    <xsd:sequence>
        <xsd:elementname="TypeName" type="xsd:QName" minOccurs="0"
        maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xsd:sequence> 
    <xsd:attributename="version" type="xsd:string"use="required"/>
    <xsd:attributename="service"
        type="xsd:string"use="required" fixed="WFS"/>
    <xsd:attributename="outputFormat"
        type="xsd:string"use="optional" default="text/xml; subtype=gml/3.1.1"/>
</xsd:complexType>

GET Request

The GET request contains:

For example:

http://server:port/rest/Spatial/WFS?SERVICE=WFS&ACCEPTVERSIONS=1.1,1.0.0&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&TYPENAME=World