GetCapabilities Response

Response description
An example of a response

Response description

The Get Capabilities operation returns an XML document that contains the meta-information for the service level and a brief description of the GIS processing capabilities.

Table 1 Elements of Common Service Metadata

The name of the element	Whether it is required	Description
Service	Yes	service type. Short description of the service, including "WPS".
Version	Yes	service type version. There is currently only one version of WPS, which has a value of 1.0.0.
updateSequence	No	Service metadata version. The version number of the service meta information document. This element is an increment, and each modification will increase a value (not supported at the moment).
lang	Yes	Language identification.
ServiceIdentification	Yes	Service identification information.
ServiceProvider	Yes	Service provider. About the service provider.
OperationsMetadata	Yes	Metadata for the operation. Operation metadata specified by the service, including the URL of the request.
ProcessOfferings	Yes	Concise description of the GIS processing functions (spatial analysis) provided by the WPS service.
Languages	Yes	Language supported by the service.
WSDL	No	Describe the location of all operations and processes provided by the service in the URL document (currently not supported).

The document returned by GetCapabilities consists of four main parts:

Table 2 Returned Content of GetCapabilities Operation

The name of the element	Description
ServiceIdentification	Service identification information.
ServiceProvider	Service provider. About the service provider.
OperationsMetadata	Operate meta information. Describe the operations that the service can provide. According to the WPS standard, SuperMap iServer supports three operations: GetCapabilities, DesctibeProcess, and Execute.
ProcessOfferings	List of supported spatial analysis operations.

The ProcessOfferings node is used to describe the spatial analysis operations supported by Execute, and mainly includes the following parts:

Table 3 ProcessOfferings element

The name of the element

Description

Format

Process

Concise description of GIS processing functions, excluding input and output.

Each GIS processing function (spatial analysis) supported by the service has a corresponding description, and there can be one or more GIS processing functions.

ProcessBrief format, see Table 4

The ProcessBrief consists of the following elements:

Table 4 Main Contents of ProcessBrief

The name of the element	Whether it is required	Description
Identifier	Yes	GIS processing functions are clearly identified or named and unique in a service.
Title	Yes	Service title.
Abstract	No	Summary of services. Provides a brief description of the server information.
Metadata	No	GIS handles more metadata.
Profile	No	Identifier of the application profile (not yet supported).
WSDL	No	Reference address of WSDL (not supported at present).
process Version	No	Release version of GIS processing function.

An example of a response

GetCapabilities request example is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <wps:Capabilities xmlns:ows="http://www.opengis.net/ows/1.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:wps="http://www.opengis.net/wps/1.0.0" xml:lang="en-US" service="WPS" updateSequence="1" version="1.0.0"> <ows:ServiceIdentification> <ows:Title>SuperMap WPS</ows:Title> <ows:Abstract>This is SuperMap Web Processing Service.</ows:Abstract> <ows:Keywords> <ows:Keyword>SuperMap</ows:Keyword> <ows:Keyword>iServer</ows:Keyword> <ows:Keyword>WPS</ows:Keyword> <ows:Keyword>geospatial</ows:Keyword> <ows:Keyword>geoprocessing</ows:Keyword> </ows:Keywords> <ows:ServiceType>WPS</ows:ServiceType> <ows:ServiceTypeVersion>1.0.0</ows:ServiceTypeVersion> </ows:ServiceIdentification> <ows:ServiceProvider> <ows:ProviderName>Beijing superMap Software Co., Ltd</ows:ProviderName> <ows:ProviderSite xlink:href="https://www.supermap.com.cn"/> <ows:ServiceContact> <ows:IndividualName>Contact Name</ows:IndividualName> <ows:PositionName>Beijing superMap Software Co., Ltd</ows:PositionName> <ows:ContactInfo> <ows:Phone> <ows:Voice>+86-10-59896655</ows:Voice> <ows:Facsimile>86-10-59896666</ows:Facsimile> </ows:Phone> <ows:Address> <ows:DeliveryPoint>6th Floor, Building 107, IT Industrial Park, Electronic City, No.10 Jiuxianqiao North Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. Beijing SuperMap Software Co., Ltd</ows:DeliveryPoint> <ows:City>Beijing</ows:City> <ows:AdministrativeArea>Beijing</ows:AdministrativeArea> <ows:PostalCode>100015</ows:PostalCode> <ows:Country>China</ows:Country> <ows:ElectronicMailAddress>support@supermap.com</ows:ElectronicMailAddress> </ows:Address> </ows:ContactInfo> </ows:ServiceContact> </ows:ServiceProvider> <ows:OperationsMetadata> <ows:Operation name="GetCapabilities"> <ows:DCP> <ows:HTTP> <ows:Get xlink:href="http://localhost:8090/iserver/services/spatialanalyst-changchun/wps100?REQUEST=GetCapabilities"/> </ows:HTTP> </ows:DCP> </ows:Operation> <ows:Operation name="DescribeProcess"> <ows:DCP> <ows:HTTP> <ows:Get xlink:href="http://localhost:8090/iserver/services/spatialanalyst-changchun/wps100?REQUEST=DescribeProcess"/> </ows:HTTP> </ows:DCP> </ows:Operation> <ows:Operation name="Execute"> <ows:DCP> <ows:HTTP> <ows:Get xlink:href="http://localhost:8090/iserver/services/spatialanalyst-changchun/wps100?REQUEST=Execute"/> <ows:Post xlink:href="http://localhost:8090/iserver/services/spatialanalyst-changchun/wps100?REQUEST=Execute"/> </ows:HTTP> </ows:DCP> </ows:Operation> </ows:OperationsMetadata> <wps:ProcessOfferings> <wps:Process wps:processVersion="1.0.0"> <ows:Identifier>Buffer</ows:Identifier> <ows:Title>Buffer a polygon feature</ows:Title> <ows:Abstract>Buffer the polygon coordinates found in one GML stream by a given buffer distance, and output the results in GML.</ows:Abstract> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="buffer"/> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="polygon"/> </wps:Process> <wps:Process wps:processVersion="1.0.0"> <ows:Identifier>Clip</ows:Identifier> <ows:Title>Clip a polygon feature</ows:Title> <ows:Abstract>Clip the polygon coordinates found in one GML stream by a given polygon, and output the results in GML.</ows:Abstract> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="clip"/> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="polygon"/> </wps:Process> <wps:Process wps:processVersion="1.0.0"> <ows:Identifier>Intersect</ows:Identifier> <ows:Title>Get intersect polygon feature</ows:Title> <ows:Abstract>Get the intersect polygon coordinates found in one GML stream by two given polygons, and output the results in GML.</ows:Abstract> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="intersect"/> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="polygon"/> </wps:Process> <wps:Process wps:processVersion="1.0.0"> <ows:Identifier>Erase</ows:Identifier> <ows:Title>Get erase polygon feature</ows:Title> <ows:Abstract>Get the erase polygon coordinates found in one GML stream by two given polygons, and output the results in GML.</ows:Abstract> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="erase"/> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="polygon"/> </wps:Process> <wps:Process wps:processVersion="1.0.0"> <ows:Identifier>Identity</ows:Identifier> <ows:Title>Get identity polygon feature</ows:Title> <ows:Abstract>Get the identity polygon coordinates found in one GML stream by two given polygons, and output the results in GML.</ows:Abstract> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="identity"/> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="polygon"/> </wps:Process> <wps:Process wps:processVersion="1.0.0"> <ows:Identifier>Union</ows:Identifier> <ows:Title>Get union polygon feature</ows:Title> <ows:Abstract>Get the union polygon coordinates found in one GML stream by two given polygons, and output the results in GML.</ows:Abstract> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="union"/> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="polygon"/> </wps:Process> <wps:Process wps:processVersion="1.0.0"> <ows:Identifier>Update</ows:Identifier> <ows:Title>Get update polygon feature</ows:Title> <ows:Abstract>Get the update polygon coordinates found in one GML stream by two given polygons, and output the results in GML.</ows:Abstract> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="update"/> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="polygon"/> </wps:Process> <wps:Process wps:processVersion="1.0.0"> <ows:Identifier>Xor</ows:Identifier> <ows:Title>Get xor polygon feature</ows:Title> <ows:Abstract>Get the xor polygon coordinates found in one GML stream by two given polygons, and output the results in GML.</ows:Abstract> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="xor"/> <ows:Metadata xlink:title="polygon"/> </wps:Process> </wps:ProcessOfferings> <wps:Languages> <wps:Default> <ows:Language>en-US</ows:Language> </wps:Default> <wps:Supported> <ows:Language>en-US</ows:Language> <ows:Language>zh-CN</ows:Language> </wps:Supported> </wps:Languages> </wps:Capabilities>