correct type report in WFS DescribeFeatureType

[bartvde@…]

Currently, Mapserver WFS treats all attributes as string, so all elements in the
DescribeFeatureType response are string.

It would be really nice if some real type support was added, so xsd:int or
xsd:double would be generated when applicable.

Last I heard (2004?) Daniel had some code, must be quite old now that code :-),
somehwere, which implemented type support, but he never got to commiting it.

[tomkralidis]

Would this be an OGR thing?  The basic approach would be to test the types of
the columns and output them appropriately in XML Schema.

[dmorissette]

This is not specific to OGR, a good solution should work for all input drivers.

The problem is that currently MapServer doesn't carry any data type information
for the attributes. This is what I had started working on way back when...

... bugzilla search...

See bug 462 and bug 820.

I think this bug should be considered a duplicate of bug 462.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 462 ***