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Hi<br>
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I'm wondering if there are any plans to use the metadata gml_types
auto setting to automatically define the field types for WFS/GML
output. <br>
I have a few hundred layers to configure, and before writing scripts
to read database fields and populate these details I wondered how
others have done this in the past. <br>
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From
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_server.html#configuring-your-mapfile-to-serve-wfs-layers">http://mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_server.html#configuring-your-mapfile-to-serve-wfs-layers</a>:<br>
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<dt><strong>gml_types</strong></dt>
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<p class="first">(Optional) If this field is “auto” then some
input feature drivers
(ie. OGR, POSTGIS, ORACLESPATIAL and native shapefiles) will
automatically populate the type, width and precision metadata
for
the layer based on the source file. Currently this is only
used for
OGR based output formats, not the WFS GML2/GML3 output.</p>
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<pre><span class="s">"gml_types"</span> <span class="s">"auto"</span>
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I'm using SQL Server 2008 and the MapServer plugin
(msplugin_mssql2008.dll), so there may be funding for some
development time for this driver. However from the above description
it seems no datasources run through a WFS return the field types. <br>
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Regards,<br>
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Seth<br>
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