[mapserver-dev] numeric values in string columns

[Daniel Morissette]

bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> we've got a dataset with road numbers, the column in ArcSDE is a character
> type. But the values can look like numbers (002 etc.) as well as strings
> (e.g. N329).
> 
> Mapserver will fail in this case, seeing it will check the value for
> determining the type of column (mapogcfilter.c).
> 
> Will this be easy to fix, or will it require that Mapserver stores column
> types internally?
> 

I'll let Assefa answer about mapogcfilter.c specifically, but I think it 
would be a good thing to maintain the original column type.

I started working on support for column types in MapServer a few years 
ago but never finished it... I think that may even have been for WFS... 
I checked this morning and unfortunately I could not find that code 
anywhere.

Daniel
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