skip_existing_layers is documented in the upload API as functional but the code says otherwise

[lobenichou]

Hello team,

Just want to clear up which of these statement is correct.

We have this line in the code:

geonode/geonode/geoserver/management/commands/importlayers.py

Line 77 in 27a4e5d

"WARNING: The skip_existing_layers flag is not currently "

But the API doc still list skip_existing_layer as a functional flag.

FWIW, the flag does not work for me when uploading a raster and some json.

endpoint= os.getenv('BASE_URL_GEONODE') + "/uploads/upload/"
upload = {
         'base_file': (os.path.basename(path), open(file, 'rb'), 'application/octet-stream')
      }

payload = {'action': 'upload', 'skip_existing_layers':'true'}
res = requests.post(endpoint, auth=auth, files=upload, verify=False, data=payload)

The data sent:

POST /api/v2/uploads/upload/ HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: python-requests/2.32.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 4725
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=51d3766f5769ab6091be732eb4851968
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWxob3N0OmFkbWlu
Host: vspar-dataviz-pp-geoserver-01.afp.com

--51d3766f5769ab6091be732eb4851968
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action"

upload
--51d3766f5769ab6091be732eb4851968
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="skip_existing_layers"

true
--51d3766f5769ab6091be732eb4851968
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="base_file"; filename="20250405_050646_62_24d1.json"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

The response:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Server: nginx/1.28.0
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:43:01 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 55
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept, Authorization, Accept-Language, Cookie, origin
Allow: POST
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=3600; includeSubDomains
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin
Content-Language: en-us
access-control-allow-origin: *
Set-Cookie: sessionid=t0k890w2nasgm95cq9de8uxy8q89sebu; expires=Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:43:01 GMT; HttpOnly; Max-Age=1209600; Path=/; 
SameSite=Lax
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: false
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, Accept, Authorization, Origin, User-Agent
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, OPTIONS