[MapServer-dev] Possibly undocumented 8.0 change

[Richard Greenwood]

No, just laziness. It's not a big deal, but maybe should be documented.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 11:58 AM Rahkonen Jukka <
jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
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> Is your aim with using GROUP without NAME to hide the layer from
> GetCapabilities so that users cannot see or request that layer separately
> but only as a member of a group? Like “opaque container” in Geoserver
> https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/data/webadmin/layergroups.html
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> -Jukka Rahkonen-
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> *Lähettäjä:* Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk>
> *Lähetetty:* maanantai 29. elokuuta 2022 10.45
> *Vastaanottaja:* Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood at gmail.com>;
> Rahkonen Jukka <jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi>
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> *Aihe:* Re: [MapServer-dev] Possibly undocumented 8.0 change
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> Hi Richard,
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> Could you create an issue for this on GitHub?
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> It looks like it could relate to the move to C++.
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> Thanks,
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> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, at 9:34 AM, Richard Greenwood wrote:
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> An empty string for the NAME works without error. I set the MS_DEBUGLEVEL
> to 5 and nothing is written to the error file when this error occurs.
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> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 12:44 AM Rahkonen Jukka <
> jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> What happens if you use an empty NAME?
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> -Jukka Rahkonen-
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> *Lähettäjä:* MapServer-dev <mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *Puolesta
> *Richard Greenwood
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> *Lähetetty:* maanantai 29. elokuuta 2022 9.06
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> *Vastaanottaja:* Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk>
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> *Kopio:* MapServer Devs <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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> *Aihe:* Re: [MapServer-dev] Possibly undocumented 8.0 change
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> Yes, it's with a WMS request. Apache throws a 500 error "End of script
> output before headers". I define a LAYER with a GROUP but no NAME. I don't
> believe METADATA plays into it because I commented out the METADATA block
> and it fails in the same way.
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> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 3:07 PM Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk> wrote:
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> Hi Richard,
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> Do you have more details - is this when using WMS? Is there an error that
> appears?
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> For WMS there is a known conflict between GROUP and wms_layer_group in a
> METADATA block, but this sounds like something different.
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> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022, at 3:53 PM, Richard Greenwood wrote:
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> I didn't see mention of this in the docs, apologies if I missed it. It
> appears that as of 8.0 a layer must have a NAME. In the past it has been
> possible for a layer not to have a NAME if it had a  GROUP.
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