Geoserver Rest API update workspace name - php

Question

I am trying to update workspace name through geoserver rest api using put method.
I am getting "Can't change the name of a workspace." error.
This is my code.
$service = geoserver_url;
$data = "<workspace><name>testnew</name></workspace>";
$url = $service . "rest/workspaces/workspacename";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$passwordStr = username:password
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $passwordStr);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-type: application/xml"););
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
Any kind of help appreciated.

Answer 1

That is not an allowable operation (as mentioned in the manual). Any PUT that changes the name of a workspace returns a 403 Error.
All you can do is create a new workspace, copy the contents of the old one and then delete it.

Answer 2

According to geoserver REST API documentations (link), you can simply edit workspace name (ws_name) by putting a request which has an xml string data in its body.
Here I've given you an example. Because of using Express as my application sever I've implemented a request using javascript but it can be changed to your favorite syntax.
const options = {
url: 'http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/{current_ws_sname}',
method: 'PUT',
headers: { 'Content-type': 'text/xml' },
body: '<workspace><name>{new_ws_name}</name></workspace>',
auth: {
user: {geoserver_username},
pass: {geoserver_password}
}
and for executing the request based on above option variable I've used request function in Express:
request(options, (error, response, body) => {
console.log('response status code:' , response.statusCode)
console.log('response status message: ', response.statusMessage)
const result = {}
if (!error) {
const statusCode = response.statusCode;
const statusMessage = response.statusMessage;
if (statusCode == 200) {
result.err = false
result.msg = `Modified`
} else if (statusCode == 404) {
result.err = true
result.msg = 'Workspace not found!'
} else if (statusCode == 405) {
result.err = true
result.msg = 'Forbidden to change the name of the workspace!'
//because of your username and/or password
} else if (statusCode == 500) {
result.err = true
result.msg = 'Server internal error or duplicate names'
}
} else {
result.err = true,
result.msg = error;
}
res.send(result);
})
Don't forget to replace {current_ws_sname}, {new_ws_sname}, {geoserver_username}, {geoserver_password} by your own values.
All the possible situations have been mentioned as above (i.e. 200, 404, 405, 500) and there is no error message like "Can't change the name of a workspace." in geoserver documentations!
What statusCode and statusMessage do you get in response? Can you confirm that your {new_ws_sname} isn't duplicate?