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Creating WFS in FME Form and/or FME Flow

scarter
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Hello Forum,

 

For a project I need to create WFS feeds for several datasets. Looking at https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-to-create-a-wfs-service-using-fme-server I see that this may be possible.

 

I’ve opened the example workspace provided in https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-to-create-a-wfs-service-using-fme-server. It wouldn’t open in v2023.1, so I opened in v2021.2 instead.

 

Is creating a WFS in FME Form really this complicated?…

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Or is there a more straightforward way of creating one? I have FME Form and FME Flow. Are there other pre-requsistutes I need to consider?

 

Note that at the moment I do not need the WFS to be externally accessible. Access should be internal only for the moment.

 

Thanks,

Stuart

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In short, yes, it is that complicated.

 

A few things to consider:

  1. FME is (broadly) a data conversion platform, here is my data, give it back to me in this other format
  2. For WFS, your input is the extent, version, layers and other metadata, the output is a formatted and structured WFS feed
  3. In terms of using the service, you can only respond to as many users as you have engines, if you have two engines, then only two users can get a response at a time. This could result in a pretty poor user experience if you have a lot of users.

 

A more robust and performant approach, albeit requiring other software, would be to have something like ArcGIS (on prem or AGOL) or GeoServer serve the data to the user

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hkingsbury wrote:

In short, yes, it is that complicated.

 

A few things to consider:

  1. FME is (broadly) a data conversion platform, here is my data, give it back to me in this other format
  2. For WFS, your input is the extent, version, layers and other metadata, the output is a formatted and structured WFS feed
  3. In terms of using the service, you can only respond to as many users as you have engines, if you have two engines, then only two users can get a response at a time. This could result in a pretty poor user experience if you have a lot of users.

 

A more robust and performant approach, albeit requiring other software, would be to have something like ArcGIS (on prem or AGOL) or GeoServer serve the data to the user

Thanks for that, hkingsbury<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/community.safe.com/0054Q00000EwvQs?fromEmail=1&s1oid=00D30000000ePES&s1nid=0DB0c000000Gmzx&s1uid=0054Q00000EwxCW&s1ext=0&emkind=chatterCommentNotification&emtm=1699556595097__;!!Ou-zFulSALS7ubxZ2oj45Dg!U7DOk3bVGbs95R2p5Aj8emiJk0uJqSRe2YxIcdOQRIHWyPW2nA2SEkDEKj8JNA2k0BbW5wLawfffBhhJ60rvsup1-zEo$>. Does anyone know of other WFS serving options (to add to ArxcGIS and GeoServer)? Thanks, Stuart
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scarter wrote:
Thanks for that, hkingsbury<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/community.safe.com/0054Q00000EwvQs?fromEmail=1&s1oid=00D30000000ePES&s1nid=0DB0c000000Gmzx&s1uid=0054Q00000EwxCW&s1ext=0&emkind=chatterCommentNotification&emtm=1699556595097__;!!Ou-zFulSALS7ubxZ2oj45Dg!U7DOk3bVGbs95R2p5Aj8emiJk0uJqSRe2YxIcdOQRIHWyPW2nA2SEkDEKj8JNA2k0BbW5wLawfffBhhJ60rvsup1-zEo$>. Does anyone know of other WFS serving options (to add to ArxcGIS and GeoServer)? Thanks, Stuart

From a quick search (in no particular order)

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scarter wrote:
Thanks for that, hkingsbury<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/community.safe.com/0054Q00000EwvQs?fromEmail=1&s1oid=00D30000000ePES&s1nid=0DB0c000000Gmzx&s1uid=0054Q00000EwxCW&s1ext=0&emkind=chatterCommentNotification&emtm=1699556595097__;!!Ou-zFulSALS7ubxZ2oj45Dg!U7DOk3bVGbs95R2p5Aj8emiJk0uJqSRe2YxIcdOQRIHWyPW2nA2SEkDEKj8JNA2k0BbW5wLawfffBhhJ60rvsup1-zEo$>. Does anyone know of other WFS serving options (to add to ArxcGIS and GeoServer)? Thanks, Stuart
Hi hkinsbury. That’s super helpful. Thank you.

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