Web API Reference MapGuide Open Source

Feature Service


Modules

 Connection To a Feature Source
 Describing a Feature Schema
 Feature Provider Registry
 Filters and Expressions
 Provider Capabilities
 Feature Service Classes

Detailed Description

The Feature Service provides an abstraction layer for the storage and retrieval of feature data in a technology-independent way. You can use the API to determine which storage technologies are available and which capabilities they have. Access to the storage technology is modeled as a connection. For example, you can connect to a file and do simple insertions or connect to a relational database and do transaction-based operations.

The root methods are contained in the MgFeatureService class.

In general, you may do any of the following, subject to provider capability limitations:


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