[Mapserver-dev] msBuildPath etc...

[Daniel Morissette]

Steve Lime wrote:
> 
> Hi folks: I'd like to ditch passing shapepath around to msOpenLayer and
> the shapefile routines. What's the best way to use the various
> msBuildPath functions to do that? For the shapefile (and Xbase
> functions) i'd like to simply pass the final file name. The logic (I
> think) would be:
> 
>   - if DATA or TABLE is full path, then use it
>   - if DATA or TABLE relative, and SHAPEPATH is valid then append it
>   - if SHAPEPATH relative, then append MAPPATH
> 
> If those that wrote those functions would help with their interpretation
> that would be great.
> 

Hi Steve,

FYI msBuildPath() already contains logic to prevent concatenating two
absolute paths.  There is also a msBuildPath3() function that takes 3
path components and combines them, so I believe you should be able to do
this:

  char path_buffer[MS_MAXPATHLEN];
  msBuildPath3(path_buffer, map_path, shape_path, data_filename);

Unless I'm mistaken, this call should do exactly what you proposed
above, i.e.

 - if data_filename is an absolute path then map_path and shape_path
   are ignored.
 - if data_filename is relative then it is appended to shape_path
 - if shape_path is absolute then map_path is ignored
 - if shape_path is relative then it is appended to map_path.
 - finally, if shape_path is null then it should be automatically 
   ignored and the result will be map_path appended to data_filename.

Oh, and if some error happens then the function returns NULL, otherwise
it will return a reference to path_buffer.

Julien, can you please confirm that this is the expected behavior?

Daniel
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