AGG changes for MapScript maintainers
Howard Butler
hobu.inc at GMAIL.COM
Sun Aug 12 00:11:29 EDT 2007
Language-specific MapScript typemaps or specializations need to be
updated to not exclusively use MapServer GD functions. Previously,
the default implementation of getBytes in image.i did:
buffer.data = msSaveImageBufferGD(self->img.gd, &buffer.size, self-
>format);
Additionally, there is now an if test to check for the presence of an
AGG driver and use the corresponding method to get the image buffer.
If your MapScript language just uses getBytes for all of its buffer/
image handling (other than the image.save() method which does not
require any swig interface changes), you should be ok. If you
MapScript language has overrides or %extends of imageObj's methods,
they will need to be updated to do the following in the case of an
AGG format:
buffer.data = msSaveImageBufferAGG(self->img.gd, &buffer.size, self-
>format);
I have updated some of the Python extensions (I do not have its
image.write() done yet for AGG), and a quick browse showed at least
C# with some overrides that need to be updated. Java and Ruby too?
Hopefully we can the necessary changes in before the next beta as
more folks start testing MapServer 5.0 to make pretty pictures :)
Howard
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