wfs-client

A very simple WFS client

Features

• Support of versions 1.0.0, 1.1.0 and 2.0.0
• Version negociation
• Service identification in plain JavaScript / JSON
• List all feature types

Usage

Create a client

const WfsClient = require('wfs-client')
const client = new WfsClient('http://your-wfs-server.tld/wfs', options)

Options

Option name	Type	Description	Default	Example
version	Optional	If you want to by-pass version negociation	undefined	1.1.0
userAgent	Optional	User-Agent used in requests	wfs-client/{version} (+https://github.com/geodatagouv/wfs-client)	WFSBot 1.0

Get service capabilities

const capabilities = await client.capabilities()

// Service identification
console.log(capabilities.service)

// Feature types
console.log(capabilities.featureTypes)

Service identification example

{
  title: 'My WFS server title',
  abstract: 'This WFS server is dedicated to environment data...',
  keywords: [ 'Data', 'Water', 'Energy', 'France', 'Europa'],
  serviceType: 'WFS',
  serviceTypeVersion: '2.0.0',
  fees: 'Free',
  accessConstraints: 'None'
}

Feature types example

[
  {
    name: 'orgA:wind_power_zones',
    title: 'Wind power zones',
    keywords: [
      'Wind power',
      'Energy',
      'Zoning'
    ]
  },
  {
    name: 'orgB:solar_energy_zones',
    title: 'Solar energy zones',
    keywords: [
      'Solar energy',
      'Energy',
      'Zoning'
    ]
  }
]

TODO

• Read ServiceProvider (>= 1.1.0)
• Read Capability (1.0.0) and OperationsMetadata (>= 1.1.0)
• Read SRS and bounding boxes
• Support GetFeature
• Add Node-style callbacks
• Tests and more tests

About

License

MIT

Author

Jérôme Desboeufs (@jdesboeufs)