RFC 26 - MapServer Terminology Cleanup

[Steve Lime]

That's a pretty big change for folks to have to go through every layer and set "QUERYABLE TRUE".
Default should probably be conservatively set to FALSE. 

Steve

>>> On 5/7/2007 at 10:06 AM, in message <463F4093.2080206 at mapgears.com>, Daniel
Morissette <dmorissette at MAPGEARS.COM> wrote:
> Steve Lime wrote:
>> Is there a way we could do this in the code without adding a new parameter? 
> I'm
>> thinking probably not since you can use layers with WxS service parameters 
> defined
>> with the CGI or MapScript... So, I would propose recognizing the template or 
> a queryable
>> parameter. 
> 
> What if someone sets TEMPLATE "something.html" and also sets QUERYABLE 
> FALSE. With what you propose the QUERYABLE setting would be ignored and 
> the layer would still be queryable, right? That would be creating 
> another source of confusion. I think if we add a QUERYABLE TRUE/FALSE 
> setting then TEMPLATE should be treated as a simple parameter and 
> queryability should be determined only by the QUERYABLE setting.
> 
> That's just my opinion, let's see what others think.
> 
> 
>> Since we have a function like msIsLayerQueryable that should be easy
>> enough.
>> 
> 
> I think there's more to do than just updating msIsLayerQueryable(). 
> First there is the class by class queryability that is not handled by 
> msIsLayerQueryable(). I also did a quick check and there is lots of code 
> that checks the layer and class template values directly and would need 
> to be updated. There's also some code (mapwfs.c) that sets dummy 
> template values that we could finally get rid of. I could take care of 
> the implementation if you want.
> 
> Daniel