[mapguide-internals] RFC 127 is ready for review

[Andre Barth]

Hi Jason,

%LOCALAPPDATA% is the better place to store the user's CS information.
Thanks for pointing that out.

So, in Windows, we'd store the custom CS data in [CLSID_LOCAL_APPDATA\Autodesk\User Geospatial Coordinate Systems].

BTW - the default location for all installed CS currently is [CLSID_COMMON_APPDATA\Autodesk\Geospatial Coordinate Systems].

The new, optional, parameter supported in the serverconfig.ini file will be the following:
MentorUserDictionaryPath               = [...]

That can be setup in addition to the [MentorDictionaryPath] key.

In a (server) environment, the target path will have to be overridden via the serverconfig.ini file anyway in most cases, I guess.
That's because a (GIS) administrator would most probably alter the CS information using a 3rd-party UI tool and make the separate CSD files available in a location that can be accessed by the account the MG service runs under.

By default, the MG server process does not need to have write-access to the directory or files where the custom CS information is stored in. Read-only access is sufficient.
This said, I'm not aware of any code in the current entire MG server application stack that would call any of the [CS Dictionary]::Modify() methods anyway.

Thanks,
André

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jason Birch
Sent: Sonntag, 9. September 2012 00:48
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Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] RFC 127 is ready for review

Don't have a horse in this particular race but, unless I missed it, the section and parameter name for new parameters in the ini files should probably be specified in these RFCs.

Can't say I really know what I'm talking about here, but it sounds like the storage mechanism is tailored to a desktop appliation.  Are there any implications of storing these items directly off the user's profile directory when MapGuide is running as one of the default system accounts on Windows (ie, do system accounts have full user profiles, are there any security restrictions)?  If there are no implications, might it still not be better off under %LOCALAPPDATA% ?

Jason

On 7 September 2012 08:22, Bruce Dechant <bruce.dechant at autodesk.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> MapGuide RFC 127 is ready for review.
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc127
>
> Please review it and provide any comments or feedback.
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
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