Edit Capabilities

[Sean Gillies]

On Feb 2, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Abe Gillespie wrote:

> Are there any editing capabilities with MapServer?  I noticed the
> SWIG-based Mapscript has shapeObj::setValue() ... but I tried this last
> night and didn't get any permanent changes.  I'm using PostGIS, so that
> may be the culprit.  Or is there no editing capabilities at all
> whatever your data source is?
>
> Thanks.
> -Abe
>
>

Abe,

Editing is outside the scope of MapServer.  The setValue() method
exists only to set attribute values of shapeObjs prior to adding them
to a layer's inline feature array.  Once they are added to the layer,
no other modification is possible.

cheers,
Sean

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