[mapguide-internals] Update for MapGuide RFC 12 - Unmanaged DataAPI Changes

[Paul Spencer]

+1 Paul

On 28-Feb-07, at 4:48 PM, Tom Fukushima wrote:

> Thanks Tony,
>
> I motion to do accept this update.
>
> +1 Tom
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tony
> Fang
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 1:54 PM
> To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
> Subject: [mapguide-internals] Update for MapGuide RFC 12 - Unmanaged
> DataAPI Changes
>
> Dearest PSC members,
>
> I'd like to make the following updates to MapGuide RFC 12 - Unmanaged
> Data API Changes.
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc12
>
>
>
> For a feature source, an alias must be in the form:
> %MG_DATA_PATH_ALIAS[alias]%
>
> This follows the existing conventions in the server for replacing text
> tags (e.g. %MG_DATA_FILE_PATH%). The server performance will be much
> better compared to using only [alias] as it will reduce the amount of
> potential false-positive hits while performing the alias re-mapping.
>
> Example:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <FeatureSource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="FeatureSource-1.0.0.xsd">
>   <Provider>OSGeo.SDF</Provider>
>   <Parameter>
>     <Name>File</Name>
>     <Value>%MG_DATA_PATH_ALIAS[alias1]%LIPOFGUTTER.sdf</Value>
>   </Parameter>
>   <Parameter>
>     <Name>ReadOnly</Name>
>     <Value>TRUE</Value>
>   </Parameter>
> </FeatureSource>
>
>
>
> For the EnumerateUnamangedData API method, the "select" parameter  
> should
> be renamed to "type". This follows the convention used by the other  
> API
> methods.
>
>
>
> Here is the http signature for the EnumerateUnmanagedData API:
>
>  OPERATION=ENUMERATEUNMANAGEDDATA
>  VERSION=1.0.0
>  PATH=
>  RECURSIVE=0
>  TYPE=Folders
>  FILTER=
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tony Fang
>
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