GetCapabilities

The Web Feature Service (WFS) is able to describe its capabilities. It indicates what feature types (contents) it can service and what operations are supported on each feature type. The service can return what feature types are available based on the feature type alias. The GetCapabilities operation is used to request a capabilities document from the OGC WFS. It issues an XML request to the WFS and gets a response that describes the capabilities of the WFS.

GET Request

The GET request contains:


Input	Required	Description
`REQUEST=GetCapabilities`	Yes	Set to GetCapabilities for a get capabilities operation.
`ACCEPTVERSIONS`	No	A comma-separated list of supported versions of the Web Feature Service standard; for example : `ACCEPTVERSIONS=2.0.2,2.0.0,1.1.0,1.0.0`. The first supported version from the list is used and if no supported versions are specified in the list, a version negotiation failed error is reported.
`VERSION`	No	Fixed to 2.0.2. This is the version of the Web Feature Service standard implemented in this release (1.0.0, 1.1.0, 2.0.0, or 2.0.2). This parameter is ignored if `ACCEPTVERSIONS` is also included in the request.
`SERVICE=WFS`	Yes	Fixed to WFS.

Sample GET request:

http://server:port/rest/Spatial/WFS?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WFS&ACCEPTVERSIONS=2.0.2,2.0.0,1.1.0,1.0.0

POST Request

The request schema is defined by the XML Schema fragment:

<xsd:elementname="GetCapabilities" type="wfs:GetCapabilitiesType"/>
<xsd:complexTypename="GetCapabilitiesType">
    <xsd:attributename="acceptversions" type="xsd:string"use="optional"/>
    <xsd:attributename="version" type="xsd:string"use="optional"/>	
    <xsd:attributename="service" type="xsd:string" use="required" fixed="WFS"/>
</xsd:complexType>