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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Correct. Templates are just a means of presenting the results of a query operation. I’ve used templates to return json successfully.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Again, you need to issue a query. So to find a record in a layer you might do something like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=mapfile&mode=itemquery&qlayer=layer&qitem=item&qstring=value&qformat=jsonformat">http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=mapfile&mode=itemquery&qlayer=layer&qitem=item&qstring=value&qformat=jsonformat</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This assumes that: for the layer in question you’ve setup a validation pattern for qstring and you’ve defined a output format called ‘jsonformat’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The one limitation I’ve found (and would like to fix) is that there’s no easy way to handle exceptions relative to the output format. For example, if you’re
outputting json it would be nice to return errors (if possible, certain ones like mapfile not found can’t be dealt with other than in the default way) as json too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Let me know if you have questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Volz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 07, 2011 10:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org; volzmark@yahoo.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] mimic geonames.org JSON server<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I recently came across an interesting openlayers application that uses geonames.org for a search functionality. I would like to be able to use my own gis data on the searches. I came
across http://mapserver.org/trunk/output/template_output.html, which starts to describe how to make a template. I just have a couple questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">1) My understanding is I can use any .map files that have a layer with appropriate fields. I just need to add another output format so that my .map file references a JSON template, and
I can keep the standard image output formats. Is this correct?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">2) How would the html request need to be formatted to search a specific value in a specific layer and return JSON?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Any help and / or examples would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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