[mapserver-dev] RFC 67 - Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web Services

[Alan Boudreault]

IIRC, the reason why we didn't choice that option was because it would have 
require too many mapfile modifications for the users.

Daniel, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Alan

On February 14, 2011 09:44:30 am Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
> I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for pulling these Jeff. The idea back
> then was to be explicit with the OWS configs, hence their own object.
> 
> Steve
> ________________________________________
> From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
> [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 8:43 AM
> To: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] RFC 67 - Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web
> Services
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I just fell upon our old notes from the 2009 code sprint, and in it
> contains the example on how we proposed during that meeting to solve
> this hiding services issue:
> 
>    LAYER
>      ...
>      OWS
>         SERVICE
>           TYPE WMS
>           REQUESTS ALL # ALL, ONE, or specific request to accept for
> this layer
>           "key1" "value1"
>           "key2" "value2"
>         END
>         SERVICE
>           TYPE WFS
>           REQUESTS ...
>           ...
>         END
>      END
>    END
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/TorontoCodeSprint2009Notes
> 
> Is there a reason to use metadata instead of the above?
> 
> -jeff
> 
> On 11-02-10 4:11 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> > Hello Alan, Daniel, and Assefa,
> > 
> > Thanks for putting together this RFC, for this much-needed enhancement.
> > I must say that I am impressed with the elaborate solution proposed. As
> > I was reading it I had some questions about what-overrides-what, but I
> > see that is covered in the 'Inheritance' section. Regarding disabling
> > all services by default, I totally agree with this and now is the time
> > to make this change. It just puts pressure on the documentation to make
> > sure it is explained well :)
> > 
> > -jeff
> > 
> > On 11-02-09 10:18 PM, Alan Boudreault wrote:
> >> Hi devs,
> >> 
> >> Daniel, Assefa and I worked on the ability to enable/disable layers in
> >> OGC Web
> >> Services. We tried to choose the easiest solution from a user point of
> >> view.
> >> We would like to get this for the release 6.0.
> >> 
> >> http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-67.html
> >> 
> >> Let us know your comments and thoughts.
> 
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