Shapefiles and Column Lengths

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Shapefile and Column text lengths:
When uploading shapefiles to create a layer, field length is respected in the edit/table in that you aren’t able to enter longer text strings than your original shapefile allowed. However, this brings up two issues:

• 1: While the DB enforces a column length, the export from the WFS is always a 255 character column, not the smaller character size expected. This is not a big deal as most of our data is small, but should probably be looked at as it can impact larger datasets where space-saving is helpful.
• 2: When editing in map view against a layer with a field length limit that is relatively short, if you try to enter in a value that is longer than the allowable field length and then save the feature, you get a generic error and cannot save the feature until you figure out which field you’ve over-entered in. Should be more detailed, I am guessing PostgreSQL returns a specific error that could be parsed.

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Linked to #19