How to get list of layers from geoserver

Question

Is it possible to get a list of all the layers served by geoserver? I.e. is there some specific url request to send that does this?

here is a WMS parser/beautifier (I'm new to this and it helped) https://geoportal.bayern.de/getcapabilities/;jsessionid=451FDFA90393C2C3F073949CF7715707?wicket-crypt=g-lD2bjSH6E — Ivan Ferrer Villa, Mar 31 '17 at 09:04

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '10 at 03:09

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The capabilities links on the geoserver home page each list layers served via various services:

the WMS capabilities lists layers that support requests for tiled images
the WFS capabilities lists layers that support requests for vector data
the WCS capabilities lists layers that support raster queries

A sample WMS request would look like this:

http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.0.0

answered Oct 07 '10 at 03:09

David Winslow

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How can I get capability of only one layer? Can I get capability of layer by passing layername? – prem30488 Sep 29 '14 at 07:26
No. The only thing you can do is using workspaces to split layers into multiple groups and then perform the getcapability at the workspace level, check this link http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/virtual-services.html. As an alternative you can make calls to the REST administrative interface of GeoServer but then you need to be an admin. – simogeo Oct 25 '14 at 09:32

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 11 '15 at 22:54

So just for completeness, here's an example of how to get a list/array of layers:

        var formatter = new OpenLayers.Format.WMSCapabilities();
        var endpoint = "path/to/wms/endpoint";
        var layers = [];

        // async call to geoserver (I'm using angular)
        $http.get(endpoint + 'request=GetCapabilities').

        success(function(data, status, headers, config) {

            // use the tool to parse the data
            var response = (formatter.read(data));

            // this object contains all the GetCapabilities data
            var capability = response.capability;

            // I want a list of names to use in my queries
            for(var i = 0; i < capability.layers.length; i ++){
                layers.push(capability.layers[i].name);
            }
        }).

        error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
            alert("terrible error logging..");
        });

How to get list of layers from geoserver

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