GeoServer supports *resultType=hits* either as a query parameter (for GET
requests) or an attribute on the GetFeature element (for XML POST requests)
which achieves this effect.
--
David Winslow
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Thorsten Reitz <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear geoserver mailing list,
>
> is there any (good) way of emulating the equivalent of an SQL COUNT(*)
> operation to know beforehand how many features a given query via the WFS
> interface would return? We have a situation where a client is used to
> iteratively refine queries until the "right" number of features is
> returned, and original data can easily be in the 100's of MB.
>
> Thanks & kind regards,
>
> Thorsten
>
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> Department Head Geovisualisation and Spatial Data Management
>
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>
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