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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Steve: I’m not aware of a plan to fix this in the short term (patches gladly accepted though)… Sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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>Steve.Toutant@inspq.qc.ca<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 10, 2014 11:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] WFS DescribeFeatureType returns string for all attributes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi,</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I'm using mapserv 6.4.1 as a wfs server to publish hundreds of layers. Most of the Layers are Postgis table or view</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">DescribeFeatureType on a layer returns "string" as data type for each attributes. This is an issue when we want to flter on WFS layer.</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I saw that this issue was discussed years ago</span>
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<a href="https://github.com/mapserver/docs/issues/65"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">https://github.com/mapserver/docs/issues/65</span></a>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Before Adding </span>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Liberation Mono","serif";color:#2F2F2F">gml_[item name]_type</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> for each non string attributes of every layers...Is there a plan to fix this bug?</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">thank you</span> <br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Steve</span> <br>
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