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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear list,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I just tested a nightly build from <a href="http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk">
http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk</a>, I took the dev release of yesterday (which would be MapServer version 6.5dev). I am using a Windows Server (2008 , 64-bits).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am using dynamic variable substitution in my mapfile and I used to put the validation pattern and the default value into the METADATA section of my layer. Something like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">LAYER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> METADATA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> "default_myvariable" "fake"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> "myvariable_validation_pattern" "^[a-zA-Z\-]+$"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> END<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">END<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This used to work (with MapServer 6.0.3 / gisinternals, stable release).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">But using the dev version, the pattern isn't validated anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I was able to make it work again by defining a VALIDATION section in my LAYER definition:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">LAYER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> VALIDATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> "default_ myvariable" "-1"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> "myvariable" "^[a-zA-Z\-]+$"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> END<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">END<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thus my question, is there a plan to deprecate the variable substitution stuff from the METADATA section or is this a kind of bug ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thanks in advance for your answer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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