[mapserver-dev] Show of hands for ticket 3522

[thomas bonfort]

+1 for required validation
+1 for global validation, possibly overridable by a layer validation
if that is a required use-case.

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thomas

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:50, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> On 3/16/2011 12:38 PM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone: Working through tickets and this one's sitting out there:
>>
>>   http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3522
>>
>> Basically its about requiring a validation pattern (given as a regex) for
>> any value used for runtime substitution. It's currently optional. I think it
>> would be a proactive move to keep folks from themselves. Currently we allows
>> subs in:
>>
>> - layer: data, tileindex, connection, filter
>> - class: expression
>>
>> 6.0 is the right time if we wanted to do this.
>
> I'm +1 for 6.0 and I think this should be made simple in that all validation
> patterns are defined once in the MAP -> VALIDATION object and are applied
> globally.
>
> If you define %foo% and use it in multiple places, I can't see what it would
> mean to validate in one place and not in another.  If people want separate
> validations than they can use separate variables. Maybe if someone is
> getting very tricky and they want it to fail so it defaults to a different
> value based on having multiple defaults that are location specific.
>
> My take is, rationalize it and make it simple and if we need more in the
> future then add new features in the new framework.
>
> -Steve W
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