[mapserver-dev] MapFile generator?

[Alan Boudreault]

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http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3334 (XML Mapfile loading support)

Alan

On March 17, 2010 11:08:20 pm Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Mulone,
> 
> You might also want to look at the XML mapfile and the XSLT to transform
> it into a regular mapfile.
> 
> http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-51.html
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2872
> http://targetgis.org/2010/01/19/a-new-xml-mapfile-format-in-mapserver-5-6/
> 
> -Steve W
> 
> Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> > Mulone,
> >
> > You're probably searching for an object model to access/generate the
> > mapfiles. In this regards you might want to use the Java MapScript API
> > as described at http://mapserver.org/mapscript/mapscript.html
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Tamas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 2010/3/17 Mulone <mulone at rome.com <mailto:mulone at rome.com>>
> >
> >
> >     Hi guys,
> >     I'm trying to set up a mapfile generator to generate a customised
> >     mapfile
> >     for different users in my system. Our system is written in
> >     Java/Groovy, so
> >     it would seem quite natural to me to set up a few classes modelling
> > the mapfile content (classes, layers with all the options), and then
> > manipulate
> >     these objects in my app (e.g. show/hide layers, change styles,
> >     scales, etc),
> >     and then call a simple "genMapfile()" and write everything to a temp
> >     file,
> >     then read by mapserver a few millisecs afterwards.
> >
> >     This looks quite simple to do.
> >
> >     My point is: do you know of any Java/Groovy generator of mapfiles?
> >     If not,
> >     do you think it could be interesting for you if I set up a
> > google-code project on this idea? Do you think this is a sensible
> > solution to my problem?
> >
> >     Thanks for any comment!
> >
> >     Mulone
> >
> >     -----
> >     Mulone
> >     PhD student
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