[mapguide-internals] Session-MapName-Map

Haris Kurtagic haris at sl-king.com
Fri Aug 31 14:40:29 EDT 2007


I am thinking that instead client application figure out what to use for
MapName, unique name would be returned from server after saving Map into
session repository.
Benefits would be that we wouldn't need to implement unique algorithm in
every client application/viewer.

Haris

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Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Session-MapName-Map

I'm confused about what supporting this in the server would mean.   
Would this impact the scripting APIs at all?  What would it make easier?

Paul

On 31-Aug-07, at 2:27 PM, Trevor Wekel wrote:

> Hi Haris,
>
> The resource identifier is the Berkeley DBXML "key" for both the
> Library:// and Session:// repositories.
>
> Thanks,
> Trevor
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Haris
> Kurtagic
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 12:21 PM
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> Subject: RE: [mapguide-internals] Session-MapName-Map
>
> Hi Trevor,
>
> Yes leading path from Library is stripped (changed with Session ) and
> Name part is given by application like MapGudie Viewer for example.
> As you suggested application can use full name ( with folders ) or as
> Paul suggested hash the name or ..
> I have a feeling that server should return the key from db. In Map.cpp
> MapName is input parameter for creating entry in db.
>
> Haris
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of  
> Trevor
> Wekel
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:08 PM
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> Subject: RE: [mapguide-internals] Session-MapName-Map
>
> Hi Haris,
>
> If you have the map definition
> Library://Samples/Sheboygan/Test.MapDefinition then the MgMap  
> resourceid
> be default will be Session:xx-yy-zz//Test.MgMap.  The leading path is
> stripped.
>
> I don't know if we have folder support in the session repository  
> but it
> would probably be better to construct the MgMap session using the full
> path.  Something like this might work:
>
> Session:xx-yy-zz//Samples_Sheboygan_Test.MgMap
>
>
> This would be an appropriate enhancement/bugfix request.  A search for
> MgResourceType::Map should take you to most of the code that would
> require change - DwfController.cpp and Map.cpp I believe.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Trevor
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Haris
> Kurtagic
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 11:40 AM
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> Subject: RE: [mapguide-internals] Session-MapName-Map
>
> Thank you, you are right on the track.
>
> Yes, you could change name as you suggested or use different sesion  
> for
> every map or ...
> I would prefer to have a in server solution for this (and to be  
> able to
> work with multiple maps in one session).
> Perhaps server could return DataKey from DB after creating new Map in
> it?
>
> Haris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul
> Spencer
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 7:23 PM
> To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
> Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Session-MapName-Map
>
> Haris,
>
> I'm not sure if I really know what I am talking about here, but my
> understanding is that when you start up a session with a
> MapDefinition, you can save the runtime MgMap object to the session
> repository as a Map resource and give it a name at that time.  The
> name is arbitrary, but in the case of the AJAX viewer it is
> predictable from the MapDefinition name and I think you are right
> that it would either blow away the existing Map or conflict in some  
> way.
>
> I'm not sure how the existing viewer works, but it doesn't contain
> the capability to change maps at run time so it would never run into
> this issue.  In Fusion, we can load different MapDefinitions at run
> time and we do something like this when the user wants to load the  
> map:
> /* $mapid is a string resource id Library://... */
> $resourceID = new  MgResourceIdentifier($mapid);
> $map = new MgMap();
> $mapName = $resourceID->GetName();
> $map->Create($resourceService, $resourceID, $mapName);
> $mapStateId = new MgResourceIdentifier("Session:" . $sessionID .
> "//" . $map->GetName() . "." . MgResourceType::Map);
> $map->Save($resourceService, $mapStateId);
>
> (NB: there is a potential problem here if the map name is the same as
> one already in the session.  I will need to fix this potential bug in
> Fusion - I will probably use an md5 hash of the string version of the
> full Library:// path to the original map.  This would probably look
> like:
>
> $mapName = md5($mapid);
>
> and the rest of the code would look the same.
> )
>
> We return the $mapName to the client so that subsequent requests can
> operate on the the appropriate Map object on the server side using
> something like this:
>
> $map = new MgMap();
> $map->Open($resourceService, $mapName);
>
> The mapagent rendering operations take the session id and the map
> name to render map images and dynamic map overlays.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
> On 31-Aug-07, at 1:05 PM, Haris Kurtagic wrote:
>
>> I would appreciate if someone could help me to clarify
>> Session-MapName-Map interaction.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now how MG Viewer-Server  is working is that it will create new
>> session
>> and read web layout and create a runtime map in session repository.
>>
>> Later runtime map is accessed by name (only name part of it) from the
>> session repository.
>>
>> So, if I would have two Maps created in Library in separate folders
>> with
>> same name and if I would add the second map to session repository I
>> could not access both Maps ( because Session Id and MapName are
>> used to
>> identify it - and they are same).
>>
>>
>>
>> Am I right about this ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Haris
>>
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