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A spatial engine provides access to a service that can perform spatial operations, one of the available spatial engines is for SQLServerSQL Server.

Warning

There may be performance issues when drawing selections with SQL Server. It's possible that altering the batchsize value for the selection map engine may improve the performance, a value of 50 is recommended.

Weave 2.5.12 has been updated to resolve this issue.

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Weave does not currently support the SQL Server geography column type.

Namespace

urn:com.cohga.server.spatial.geotools#1.0

Tags

spatialengine

Properties

Name

Type

Required

Description

id

string

yes

Unique identifier

dbtype

'sqlserver'

yes

The name of the driver to use, in this case sqlserver

host

string

yes

The hostname or ip address of the SQL Server

server

host

port

number

yes

The port number that the SQL Server instance is running on

database

string

no

The database to be connected to

instance

string

no

The

SQLServer

SQL Server instance to be connected to

integratedsecurity

boolean

no

Login as current windows user account. Works only in windows. Ignores user and password settings.

url

string

no

JDBC URL connection string, full URL that completely replaces the URL constructed from the settings listed above (host, port, database, instance and integratedsecurity)

schema

string

no

The schema used when connecting to the database

user

string

yes

The userid used when connecting to the database

passwd

string

yes

The password used when connecting to the database

namespace

string

no

The namespace prefix

minconnections

minConnections

integer

no

The minimum number of pooled connection. Default 1

maxconnections

maxConnections

integer

no

The maximum number of open connections. Default 10

validateconnections

validateConnections

boolean

no

Check connection is alive before using it. Default false

fetchsize

fetchSize

integer

no

The number of records read with each

iteraction

interaction with the

dbms

DBMS. Default 1000

connectiontimeout

connectionTimeout

integer

no

The number of seconds the connection pool will wait before timing out attempting to get a new connection. Default 20 (seconds)

primarykeymetadatatable

primaryKeyMetadataTable

string

no

The optional table containing primary key structure and sequence associations. Can be expressed as 'schema.name' or just 'schema' (if the table name is 'GT_PK_METADATA'). Default none

maxopenpreparedstatements

maxOpenPreparedStatements

integer

no

Maximum number of prepared statements kept open and cached for each connection in the pool. Set to 0 to have unbounded caching, to -1 to disable caching. Default 50

geometrymetadatatable

geometryMetadataTable

string

no

The options table containing geometry column metadata information.

usenativegeometryserialization

useNativeGeometrySerialization

boolean

no

Use native SQL Server serialization, or WKB serialization. Default is false.

forcespatialindexusageviahints

forceSpatialIndexUsageViaHints

boolean

no

When enabled, spatial filters will be

accompained

accompanied by a WITH INDEX sql hint forcing the usage of the spatial index. Default is false.

tableHints

string

no

These table hints will be added to every select query.

useNativePaging

boolean

no

Use native paging for SQL queries. For some sets of data, native paging can have a performance impact.

trustServerCertificate

boolean

no

If true (or not set) the connection URL will include the TrustServerCertificate=true flag. Available since 2.6.9

Sub-tags

None

Content

None

Examples

Basic SQL Server connection
Code Block
xml
languagexmltitleBasic SQL Server connection
<spatial:spatialengine id="sqlserver">
  <dbtype>sqlserver</dbtype>
  <host>sqlhost</host>
  <port>1434</port>
  <database>INTERNAL</database>
  <user>gis</user>
  <passwd>hak0rz<<passwd>ENCSMAAFGJGAMGESBUK</passwd>
  <schema>GIS</schema>
  <minconnection>2</minconnections>minconnection>
  <validateconnections>true</validateconnections>
</spatial:spatialengine>
SQL Server connection using a URL
Code Block
languagexml
<spatial:spatialengine id="sqlserver">
  <dbtype>sqlserver</dbtype>
  <url>jdbc:sqlserver://sqlhost:1434;DatabaseName=INTERNAL</url>
  <user>gis</user>
  <passwd>ENCSMAAFGJGAMGESBUK</passwd>
  <schema>GIS</schema>
  <minconnection>2</minconnection>
  <validateconnections>true</validateconnections>
</spatial:spatialengine>
Note

Note: Because of a bug in the org.geotools.sqlserver plugin you still need to include the <host> tag when using the URL connection type, even though it will be ignored.
Weave 2.6.9.5 and 2.6.10, which include version 13.4.8.20231123 of the above plugin, resolves that issue.

Row Identifiers

Weave needs to be able to uniquely identify each row in a particular table, normally it would do this using the primary key of the table, but something sometimes a primary key has not been specified so this information must be provided another way.

This can be done by creating a primary key metadata table and populating it with a row for each table that will be exposed to Weave and then setting the primarykeymetadatatable attribute for the spatial engine. 

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SQL create statement for gt_pk_metadata table
Code Block
languagesql
CREATE TABLE GT_PK_METADATA (
  TABLE_SCHEMA varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  TABLE_NAME varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  PK_COLUMN varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  PK_COLUMN_IDX int NOT NULL,
  PK_POLICY varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  PK_SEQUENCE varchar(255),
   UNIQUE(TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, PK_COLUMN),
   CHECK(PK_POLICY IN ('ASSIGNED','SEQUENCE', 'AUTOGENERATED') )
)

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Primary Key Metadata

If the primary key for a table can not be determined by Weave directly from the database then the information can be provided by creating a table or directly embedding the information in the spatial engine configuration.

Column

Description

table_schema

Name of the database schema in which the table is located.

table_name

Name of the table to be published

pk_column

Name of a column used to form the feature IDs

pk_column_idx

Index of the column in a multi-column key. In case multi column keys are needed multiple records with the same table schema and table name will be used.

pk_policy

The new value generation policy, used in case a new feature needs to be added in the table ('assigned', 'sequence' or 'autogenerated').

Where:
'sequence' means that the value for the column is generated using a database sequence, and the 'pk_sequence' value must be set.
'autogenerated' means that the value for the column is generated by the database using another method.
'assigned' means that the value for the column is determined by the current maximum value +1, if the column is an integral type, or as a random string if the column is textual.

pk_sequence

The name of the database sequence to be used when generating a new value for the pk_column. The pk_sequence value only need to be set if the pk_policy is 'sequence'.

Using primary key metadata configuration

You can also specify the above information directly in the spatial engine configuration.

Name

Description

name

The table name

schema

The optional table schema

column

The column in the the table that contains the unique id

policy

How the key is generated

sequence

The name of the database sequence to use if the policy is 'sequence'


Code Block
languagexml
<spatial:spatialengine id="sqlserver">
  <dbtype>sqlserver</dbtype>
  <host>sqlhost</host>
  <port>1434</port>
  <user>gis</user>
  <passwd>hak0rz</passwd>
  <schema>GIS</schema>
  <minconnection>2</minconnection>
  <validateconnections>true</validateconnections>
  <primarykeymetadata>
    <table schema="dbo" name="park" column="gid" policy="autogenerated"/>
    <table schema="dbo" name="property" column="park_id" type="autogenerated"/>
    <table schema="dbo" name="road" column="objectid" type="autogenerated"/>
  </primarykeymetadata>
</spatial:spatialengine>

Using the geometry metadata table

The SQL server data store can determine the geometry type and native SRID of a particular column only by data inspection, by looking at the first row in the table. Of course this is error prone, and works only if there is data in the table. The administrator can address the above issue by manually creating a geometry metadata table describing each geometry column. Its presence is indicated via the SQL Server datastore connection parameter named geometrymetadatatable (which may be a simple table name or a schema-qualified one). The table has the following structure (the table name is flexible, just specify the one chosen in the data store connection parameter):

Creating geometry metadata table
Code Block
title
languagesqlCreating geometry metadata table
CREATE TABLE GT_GEOMETRY_METADATA (
   F_TABLE_SCHEMA VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
   F_TABLE_NAME VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
   F_GEOMETRY_COLUMN VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
   COORD_DIMENSION INTEGER,
   SRID INTEGER NOT NULL,
   TYPE VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
   UNIQUE(F_TABLE_SCHEMA, F_TABLE_NAME, F_GEOMETRY_COLUMN),
   CHECK(TYPE IN ('POINT','LINELINESTRING', 'POLYGON', 'COLLECTION', 'MULTIPOINT', 'MULTILINEMULTILINESTRING', 'MULTIPOLYGON', 'GEOMETRY') )
)

When the table is present the store first searches it for information about each geometry column to be classified, and falls back on data inspection only if the table does not contain any information.

The SRID column should contain the EPSG code for the projection that the data for the layer is stored in.

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As of Weave 2.5.16 it's possible to specify the information contained in the geometry metadata table directly in the spatial engine configuration.

Name

Description

name

The

table

name

schema

The

optional

table

schema

type

The

geometry

type

(point,

linestring,

polygon,

multipoint,

multilinestring,

multipolygon)

srid

The

geometry

srid

dimension

The

geometry

dimension

Using geometry metadata configuration
Code Block
languagexml
<spatial:spatialengine id="sqlserver">
  <dbtype>sqlserver</dbtype>
  <host>sqlhost</host>
  <port>1434</port>
  <user>gis</user>
  <passwd>hak0rz</passwd>
  <schema>GIS</schema>
  <minconnection>2</minconnections>minconnection>
  <validateconnections>true</validateconnections>
  <geometrymetadata>
    <table schema="dbo" name="park" type="multipolygon" srid="28355" dimension="2"/>
    <table schema="dbo" name="property" type="polygon" srid="28355" dimension="2"/>
    <table schema="dbo" name="road" type="linestring" srid="28355" dimension="2"/>
  </geometrymetadata>
</spatial:spatialengine>

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