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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">There is a method called updateFromString() to go the other way. I’d be fine with convertToString() or something like that. They should kind of mirror each
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Umberto Nicoletti<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> MapServer Dev Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mapserver-dev] MS RFC 88: Saving MapServer Objects to Strings - Call For Vote<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#toString()">http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#toString()</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">is a predefined method name on all Java objects and while it is common to override it and supply a custom implementation I think mapscript<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">should leave this last option to the user rather than take it for itself.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I suggest the method names is changed to: toMapFileString<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">before the RFC is approved<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Umberto<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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On 13-02-14 12:14 PM, Tamas Szekeres wrote:<br>
> Dear PSC,<br>
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> Not requiring to have a large number of pending RFCs out there and<br>
> getting no significant requests to change the concept, I motion to vote<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> on RFC 88 <<a href="http://mapserver.org/trunk/development/rfc/ms-rfc-88.html" target="_blank">http://mapserver.org/trunk/development/rfc/ms-rfc-88.html</a>>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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> According to Steve's suggestion I've changed the name of the mapscript<br>
> exposed methods to "toString", as the SWIG bindings C#, Java, Python<br>
> still compile with success when applying this change.<br>
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> I hereby add my +1 to the motion.<br>
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> Best regards,<br>
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> Tamas<br>
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