[mapserver-dev] MOTION to adopt RFC 118 - Vendor-specific WMS FILTER param

[Daniel Morissette]

For the record, after Even fixed the Travis config, the updated RFC 118 
pull request passed all tests and has been merged into master.

Daniel


On 2017-09-20 4:17 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I declare this motion passed with +1 from TomK, SteveL, JukkaR, SteveW, 
> MichaelS, StephanM, JeffM and DanielM.
> 
> I updated the RFC to reflect the vote results and also indicate a 
> limitation that was found in testing: since this uses the QUERYMAP 
> mechanism for rendering, the OPACITY, COMPOSITE and MASK layer options 
> are not supported in filtered layers because msDrawQueryMap() doesn't 
> implement them. (Fixing this QueryMap limitation is out of scope for 
> this RFC)
> 
> The code has been tested for a little while in a few apps and is ready 
> to merge into master for 7.2 in the following pull request:
> 
> https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/5480
> 
> Unfortunately the Travis builds are broken at the moment, so I wonder if 
> I should merge into master anyway, or wait for Travis to be fixed. Any 
> opinions on this?
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> On 2017-08-15 5:41 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>> We had the discussion on RFC 118 back in February and the code in my 
>> fork (https://github.com/dmorissette/mapserver/tree/rfc118-filter) has 
>> been in use in a few apps since, but we haven't voted to include it 
>> officially in 7.2 yet.
>>
>> So unless there is more feedback, I'll move to adopt MS RFC 118 - 
>> Support Vendor-Specific OGC FILTER parameter in WMS requests:
>>
>> http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-118.html
>>
>> And I start with my +1
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> 


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