WFS-T feature insert Failure

I'm experiencing the same issue with 1.7.2 (both windows and linux), I've tested with the states shapefile and the following xml request:

<wfs:Transaction service="WFS" version="1.1.0" xmlns:sde="http://edats.com/sde" xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs" xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/ogc" xmlns:topp="http://www.openplans.org/topp" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/wfs http://schemas.opengis.net/wfs/1.1.0/WFS-transaction.xsd"><wfs:Insert><topp:states><topp:the_geom><gml:MultiPolygon srsName="EPSG:4326"><gml:PolygonMember><gml:Polygon srsName="EPSG:4326"><gml:outerBoundaryIs><gml:LinearRing><gml:coordinates decimal="." cs="," ts=" ">-121.663,47.464 -71.61,45.561 -98.829,27.526 -121.663,47.464</gml:coordinates></gml:LinearRing></gml:outerBoundaryIs></gml:Polygon></gml:PolygonMember></gml:MultiPolygon></topp:the_geom></topp:states></wfs:Insert></wfs:Transaction>

Upping priorities for jiras we're looking forward to actually fix in 1.7.5

Brandon, looked into the transaction you provided, and it's invalid. You're using WFS version 1.1.0 yet you're expressing the geometry in GML2 instead of GML3.

Unfortunately GeoServer is not telling us so, by debugging I noticed that the polygon was empty, this is because the parser skips over the parts that it cannot undestand. And as far as I remember, WFS insertions cannot be validatated, thought I don't remember the exact reason (I think it is because the wfs schema basically says that any kind of element can be put inside the Insert one, but I'm not sure, Justin?), anyways, the inability to validate them means also we don't have a way to report back an error message.

This fixed transaction works:

<wfs:Transaction service="WFS" version="1.0.0"
	xmlns:sde="http://edats.com/sde" xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs"
	xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/ogc" xmlns:topp="http://www.openplans.org/topp"
	xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/wfs http://schemas.opengis.net/wfs/1.0.0/WFS-transaction.xsd
                        http://www.openplans.org/topp http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wfs?request=DescribeFeatureType&amp;service=wfs&amp;version=1.0.0&amp;typeName=topp:states">
	<wfs:Insert>
		<topp:states>
			<topp:the_geom>
				<gml:MultiPolygon srsName="EPSG:4326">
					<gml:polygonMember>
						<gml:Polygon srsName="EPSG:4326">
							<gml:outerBoundaryIs>
								<gml:LinearRing>
									<gml:coordinates decimal="." cs="," ts=" ">
										-121.663,47.464 -71.61,45.561 -98.829,27.526 -121.663,47.464
									</gml:coordinates>
								</gml:LinearRing>
							</gml:outerBoundaryIs>
						</gml:Polygon>
					</gml:polygonMember>
				</gml:MultiPolygon>
			</topp:the_geom>
		</topp:states>
	</wfs:Insert>
</wfs:Transaction>

So the main problem here is not in the code not working, but in the lack of proper error reporting.... which I don't know how we can put togheter thought, unless we find a way to validate the xml before using it.
Justin, maybe the parser could mark down what it skipped and that could be used to report an error message in strict=true mode?

Closing as "not a bug" since the request was invalid. Yet, we'll open another jira to try to get better error reporting (will link to it when it's up)

I migrate to PostGIS and problem is solved automatically. I think it was beacause of a damaged shapefile. I used Quantum GIS to make this shapefile but, it seems invalid file format and geoserver couldnt insert new data into that. Thanks for your attention.

I get this error in GeoServer 2.1.1

when trying to create a new feature using the below query:

<wfs:Transaction
xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs" service="WFS" version="1.0.0"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/wfs http://schemas.opengis.net/wfs/1.0.0/WFS-transaction.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<wfs:Insert>
<feature:Roads xmlns:feature="http://localhost:8080/geoserver/moz">
<feature:the_geom>
<gml:LineString xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" srsName="EPSG:4326">
<gml:coordinates decimal="." cs="," ts=" ">
35.584319755,-16.256021505 35.647538505,-16.233177755 35.679944755,-16.218302755
</gml:coordinates>
</gml:LineString>
</feature:the_geom>
</feature:Roads>
</wfs:Insert>
<wfs:Insert>
<feature:Roads xmlns:feature="http://localhost:8080/geoserver/moz">
<feature:the_geom>
<gml:LineString xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" srsName="EPSG:4326">
<gml:coordinates decimal="." cs="," ts=" ">
35.679944755,-16.218302755 35.696944755,-16.239552755
</gml:coordinates>
</gml:LineString>
</feature:the_geom>
</feature:Roads>
</wfs:Insert>
</wfs:Transaction>

the following error is returned:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ServiceExceptionReport
version="1.2.0"
xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/ogc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/ogc http://schemas.opengis.net/wfs/1.0.0/OGC-exception.xsd">
<ServiceException>
java.io.IOException: Current fid index is null, next must be called before write()
Current fid index is null, next must be called before write()
</ServiceException>
</ServiceExceptionReport>

This requires a new jira, you also need to report which data store you are using, provide a full stack trace (which you will get if you enable "verbose exception reporting" in the "server" configuration panel) and provide a sample data set (it may be empty, we just need the structure) to allow the developers to reproduce the issue