[Mapserver-dev] msBuildPath etc...

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

You're perfectly right Daniel. I think the msBuildPath3 will do exactly 
what you want, Steve.

Julien


Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Steve Lime wrote:
> 
>>Hi folks: I'd like to ditch passing shapepath around to msOpenLayer and
>>the shapefile routines. What's the best way to use the various
>>msBuildPath functions to do that? For the shapefile (and Xbase
>>functions) i'd like to simply pass the final file name. The logic (I
>>think) would be:
>>
>>  - if DATA or TABLE is full path, then use it
>>  - if DATA or TABLE relative, and SHAPEPATH is valid then append it
>>  - if SHAPEPATH relative, then append MAPPATH
>>
>>If those that wrote those functions would help with their interpretation
>>that would be great.
>>
> 
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> FYI msBuildPath() already contains logic to prevent concatenating two
> absolute paths.  There is also a msBuildPath3() function that takes 3
> path components and combines them, so I believe you should be able to do
> this:
> 
>   char path_buffer[MS_MAXPATHLEN];
>   msBuildPath3(path_buffer, map_path, shape_path, data_filename);
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, this call should do exactly what you proposed
> above, i.e.
> 
>  - if data_filename is an absolute path then map_path and shape_path
>    are ignored.
>  - if data_filename is relative then it is appended to shape_path
>  - if shape_path is absolute then map_path is ignored
>  - if shape_path is relative then it is appended to map_path.
>  - finally, if shape_path is null then it should be automatically 
>    ignored and the result will be map_path appended to data_filename.
> 
> Oh, and if some error happens then the function returns NULL, otherwise
> it will return a reference to path_buffer.
> 
> Julien, can you please confirm that this is the expected behavior?
> 
> Daniel


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