A few demo applications are included with GeoServer.
The WCS request builder
application is pretty handy to piece together a GetCoverage
request. It's not something you'll likely do as a beginner, but it's worth remembering that the tool is available.
The Demo requests
application has a number of example requests to query WCS, WFS, and WMS. Examples to delete, update, and insert records are also included. Consider the following screenshot:
You learned that WMS, WFS, and WCS are standards describing the interaction among clients and servers. Each standard defines a set of operations that, from a client's point of view, are requests. On the OGC site, you can download detailed documents describing each admitted request. The demo application is a valuable tool to help you practice with requests. Let's explore some basic operations:
- Open the
Demo requests
application. From the drop-down list, you can select a set of prepared requests. They are listed with a syntax declaring...