geosapi (version 0.1-0)

GSUtils: Geoserver REST API Manager Utils

Description

Geoserver REST API Manager Utils

Usage

GSUtils

Value

Object of R6Class with static util methods for communication with the REST API of a GeoServer instance.

Format

R6Class object.

Static methods

getUserAgent()

This method is used to get the user agent for performing GeoServer API requests. Here the user agent will be compound by geosapi package name and version.

getUserToken(user, pwd)

This method is used to get the user authentication token for performing GeoServer API requests. Token is given a Base64 encoded string.

GET(url, user, pwd, path, verbose)

This method performs a GET request for a given path to GeoServer REST API

PUT(url, user, pwd, path, filename, contentType, verbose)

This method performs a PUT request for a given path to GeoServer REST API, to upload a file of name filename with given contentType

POST(url, user, pwd, path, content, contentType, verbose)

This method performs a POST request for a given path to GeoServer REST API, to post content of given contentType

DELETE(url, user, pwd, path, verbose)

This method performs a DELETE request for a given GeoServer resource identified by a path in GeoServer REST API

parseResponseXML(req)

Convenience method to parse XML response from GeoServer REST API. Although package httr suggests the use of xml2 package for handling XML, geosapi still relies on the package XML. Response from httr is retrieved as text, and then parsed as XML using xmlParse function.

getPayloadXML(obj)

Convenience method to create payload XML to send to GeoServer.