[mapserver-dev] Single-pass query RFC updated...

[Daniel Morissette]

Steve Lime wrote:
> I had thought about that. I think that will break more apps since most folks only use msLayerGetShape() in
> the context of queries. Which is worse? I do like the more explicit name of msLayerResultSetGetShape(). 
> 

Good point. However the apps that currently call GetShape in the context 
of queries will need to be fixed to avoid calling open/close anyway, so 
the change to use msLayerResultSetGetShape is just one more tiny change 
for apps that will already be broken and require an update.

In a context where both approaches have side-effects, perhaps the better 
name could be the reason to choose one over the other?


> Note that for many drivers the  msLayerResultSetGetShape() would just wrap msLayerGetShape() since
> the result set indexes reference the main dataset. Shapefiles would work like this. Any driver that didn't/couldn't
> maintain a result set handle could do it this way and would work like do now.
> 

That's what I thought we would do for OGR.

Daniel
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