[mapserver-dev] Global "Substitution" RFC

[Dan Little]

I would anticipate this would work in concert with all other substitution mechanisms and so the string parsing will require some serious consideration.

This RFC is a little more adventurous than the database-variable binding solution I purposed earlier.  I'm still working on doing the research for how the parsing would work, my hope was to spend some code-sprint time working on the exploratory bits if there was some interest.

I'm still working on acclimating to the formal processes of RFC submission and has presumed that I needed to purpose something before it was given an accepted number.


----- Original Message ----
> From: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
> To: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Mapserver Dev <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010 11:59:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Global "Substitution" RFC
> 
> Dan Little wrote:
> > Of course, this time I just wrote an RFC and this probably deserves some
> > discussion.  My general idea/hope is to eliminate some of the need for
> > people to need templating systems for complex mapfiles.   Or at least make
> > the management of extensive mapfiles a little easier.
> 
> Duck,
> 
> I'm interested in how the substitution mechanism you propose relates to
> other substitution mechanisms already in place in MapServer.  I gather there
> is a way of passing extra values in the url that can be substituted somehow.
> I wonder if there would be some way of tieing into the same syntax.
> 
> Were you planning to implement the RFC yourself?  Have you done experiments
> to see how hard it would be to parse the SETTING[''] values the way you want?
> 
> If you want to proceed, you should assign an RFC number and get the RFC into
> the normal RFC repository.
> 
> Best regards,
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