[mapserver-dev] Any reaction to the 5.4 release plan?

[Daniel Morissette]

Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> 
> I would support to have http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2870 
> implemented (or something like this) in this release.
> It's a small change though, it would establish an option is to have a 
> certain set of the items retrieved and bypass msLayerWhichItems in some 
> cases. This would also be essential if we think about caching the 
> features for later use in the future additions.
> 

In this ticket, instead of hijacking the TEXT member of the inline 
features for the attributes, would it not be better to add a 
new/explicit ITEMS parameter for that?

Either

     FEATURE
         POINTS -0.2 51.5 END
         ITEMS "value1;value2;value2"
     END

or

     FEATURE
         POINTS -0.2 51.5 END
         ITEMS
           "value1"
           "value2"
           "value3"
         END
     END


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Daniel Morissette
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