[mapserver-users] other problems from 3.4 to 3.5 ?

[Daniel Morissette]

"A. Giacomelli" wrote:
> 
> Having fixed this, from the 3.5 setup, I am getting other complaints
> from the mapserver, related to other tags in the map file (QUERY,
> QUERYITEM, HEADER...), always as a loadLayer error.
> plus another strange error reading a shapefile (which works clean on my
> first installation)...
> 
> I have tried searching the mailing list archive for references to
> documentation to the 3.5 map files, without success (maybe I tried with
> the wrong search keys, or it's not there yet).
> 
> Would you confirm that even the errors on QUERY, QUERYITEM etc. come
> from new map file definitions ?
> (in this case I think I'll stick to 3.4 also in the second server I am
> setting up...)
> 

Andrea,

Yes, the errors with the QUERY and QUERYITEM are also related to changes
in the mapfiles for 3.5.

I've attached below a list of changes in the mapfiles and in mapscript
from 3.4 to 3.5.  I realize this list does not contain much explanations
about the changes, but hopefully it will help.

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MapServer - HISTORY.TXT
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Version 3.5 - March 2001
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- In .map LAYER defns: QUERYITEM and QUERY objects (queryObj) are
  gone... their params moved inside classObj.
  The query is performed on all the shapes that are part of a CLASS 
  that contains a TEMPLATE parameter. 

- Draw() method of pointObj, RectObj take class_index instead
  of class_name as argument
   pointObj->Draw(map, layer, img, class_index, label_string)
   rectObj->Draw(map, layer, img, class_index, label_string)

- shapeObj:
    Draw changes to: shapeObj->Draw(map, layer, img)
  + new methods:
    shapeObj->setBounds()
    shapeObj->copy(shape)
  + values[] associative array

- queryResultObj, shapeResultObj are gone, replaced by resultCacheObj
   new methods:
     layerObj->open(path)
     layerObj->close()
     layerObj->getShape(int tileindex, int shapeindex)
     layerObj->getResult(int i)
     layerObj->setFilter(string filter)

- layerObj->classify() gone.

- New layer->FILTERITEM

- map->DrawQueryMap(queryResultObj) changed to  map->DrawQuery(void)

- New layer->DrawQuery(img)

- QueryUsingPoint() / QueryUsingRect() do not return query result...
  info is stored inside layer instead.
   QueryUsingPoint() ->  int QueryByPoint(point, mode, buffer)
   QueryUsingRect() ->  int QueryByRect(rect)
   QueryUsingFeatures() ->  int QueryByFeatures(int slayer)
   QueryUsingShape() ->  int QueryByShape(shape)


- image->saveImage()/saveWebImage() changed to:
   saveImage(string filename, int type, int transparent,
             int interlace, int quality)
   saveWebImage(int type, int transparent, int interlace, int quality)

- New resultCacheMemberObj class... replaces queryResultObj

- PHP: new ms_GetVersion()

- New OGR support:
   - OGR style attributes: "OGR:LabelText", "OGR:LabelAngle", "OGR:LabelSize"
   - PROJECTION AUTO for layers

- Changes to SHAPE_TYPE, LAYER_TYPE, SHAPEFILE_TYPE constants

- Layer status MS_QUERY is gone (valid values are ON, OFF, DEFAULT.  EMBED
  can also be used for legend/scalebar.

- PROJ.4.4.3 is now required for PROJ support.

- layerObj: "legend" and "description" moved into metadataObj

- New METADATA object in map file + MapScript methods in mapObj + layerObj:
   getMetaData(name);
   setMetaData(name, value);


Version 3.4 - February 2001
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- SHADESET, LINESET, MARKERSET -> SYMBOLSET
  All symbols files should be combined by cat'ing them together.

- STYLED removed in symbol definitions
  Brute force solution: flush all symbols with a STYLED from your .sym
files.

Version 3.3.011 - July 2000
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