[mapserver-dev] default values when using url overloading

[Daniel Morissette]

Thomas Bonfort wrote:
> 
> I very often use url overloading with the %key% syntax in my mapfile
> as I find it's a powerful means of building custom maps. The problem
> with the current implementation is that the mapfile more often than
> less becomes unparsable if the url doesn't contain the key=value
> parameter.
> 
> Would it be complicated to modify the parser so that the mapfile can
> contain a default value for %key%, that would be applied if the url
> does not contain the "key" parameter?
> 

I have encountered that problem as well and think this would be a 
valuable addition.

Perhaps it could be as simple as looking up the %key% value in metadata 
if it is not present in the URL?

Daniel
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