[Mapserver-users] bug postgis query alias

Jason Thaxter thaxter at gomoos.org
Thu Jun 3 11:59:52 PDT 2004


It looks to be unpatched in 4.2.0.

Patch (untested, but so small!):

--- mapserver-4.2.0/maplexer.l.orig     Thu Jun  3 14:52:12 2004
+++ mapserver-4.2.0/maplexer.l  Thu Jun  3 14:52:39 2004
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@
 
 <INITIAL>[a-z/\.][a-z0-9/\._\-\=]*            { return(MS_STRING); }
 <OBJECT_STRING>[a-z/\.][a-z0-9/\.\-\=]*               { return(MS_STRING); }
-<VALUE_STRING>[a-z/\.][a-z0-9/\. \-\=]*        { return(MS_STRING); }
+<VALUE_STRING>[a-z/\.][a-z0-9/\. \-\=:'<>]*        { return(MS_STRING); }
 
 <INITIAL>\n                                    { msyylineno++; }
 


On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:37:49PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> I think I know what this might be. We had a similar problem caused by
> the fact that the Mapserver lexer has a very limited set of characters
> it will let through - the symptom being that Mapserver would truncate my
> DATA clause at the offending characters (in our case it was a colon)
> whenever I used a casting such as '::bigint' in the DATA string.
> 
> The patch we are currently running against 3.6.5 is the following:
> 
> 
> --- mapserver-3.6.5.vanilla/maplexer.l	Wed Sep 18 16:14:17 2002
> +++ mapserver-3.6.5/maplexer.l	Fri May  9 16:30:45 2003
> @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@
>  
>  <INITIAL>[a-z/\.][a-z0-9/\._\-\=]*	       { return(MS_STRING); }
>  <OBJECT_STRING>[a-z/\.][a-z0-9/\.\-\=]*	       {
> return(MS_STRING); }
> -<VALUE_STRING>[a-z/\.][a-z0-9/\. \-\=]*        { return(MS_STRING); }
> +<VALUE_STRING>[a-z/\.][a-z0-9/\. \-\=:'<>]*    { return(MS_STRING); }
>  
>  <INITIAL>\n                                    { msyylineno++; }
>  
> 
> This allow us to use the :'<> characers in a Mapserver DATA clause. If
> you also include a \+ in the second regex to allow a + in the data
> string then hopefully your query will work. I don't know whether this
> has already been resolved in version 4.
> 
> I didn't submit this as a patch as I wasn't sure what effect it would
> have on the other fields used by Mapserver since VALUE_STRING is not
> just used for the DATA clause - one of the other developers should be
> able to comment on this.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> ---
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu 
> > [mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> > Vladimir Guzm?n
> > Sent: 01 June 2004 13:04
> > To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] bug postgis query alias
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, the query runs fine in the pgsql monitor:
> > gps=> select gid,'>' as sentido,tiempo,360-rumbo+90 as 
> > rumbo,velocidad,gps_geom,oid from gps_vehi where 
> > tiempo>='2004-05-31 05:00:00' and tiempo<='2004-06-02 04:59:59';
> >   gid  | sentido |       tiempo        | rumbo | velocidad |
> > gps_geom             |   oid
> > -------+---------+---------------------+-------+-----------+--
> -------------------------------+---------
> > 46275 | >       | 2004-05-31 15:16:09 |   450 |         0 |
> > SRID=1;POINT(-74.06318 4.67302) | 7731018
> > 46276 | >       | 2004-05-31 15:16:15 |   450 |         0 |
> > SRID=1;POINT(-74.06318 4.67302) | 7731019
> > 46277 | >       | 2004-05-31 15:16:21 |   450 |         0 |
> > SRID=1;POINT(-74.06319 4.67301) | 7731020
> > ...
> > ...
> > 
> > The error is just:
> > 
> > *Warning*:  MapServer Error in msDrawMap(): Failed to draw 
> > layer named 
> > 'puntosgps'.
> > in */usr/local/apache/htdocs/gps/index.phtml* on line *33*
> > 
> > 
> > Vladimir Ilich Guzm?n R.
> > ------------------------
> > http://maintask.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > strk wrote:
> > 
> > >On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:29:45PM -0500, Vladimir Guzm?n wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Hello.
> > >>I'm implementing a gps tracking system.
> > >>I want to show the car's orientation like this: 
> > >>http://maintask.com/test.png The layer's data is something 
> > like this:
> > >>-----------------------------
> > >>gps_geom from (select gid,sentido,tiempo,360-rumbo+90 as 
> > >>rumbo,velocidad,gps_geom,oid from gps_vehi where 
> > tiempo>='2004-05-29 
> > >>05:00:00' and tiempo<='2004-05-30 04:59:59') as foo using 
> > unique gid 
> > >>using srid=1
> > >>-----------------------------
> > >>The field 'sentido' contains '>'.
> > >>
> > >>The problem is that if I use something like this:
> > >>-----------------------------
> > >>gps_geom from (select gid,'>' as sentido,tiempo,360-rumbo+90 as
> > >>rumbo,velocidad,gps_geom,oid from gps_vehi where 
> > tiempo>='2004-05-29 
> > >>05:00:00' and tiempo<='2004-05-30 04:59:59') as foo using 
> > unique gid 
> > >>using srid=1
> > >>-----------------------------
> > >>The query doesn't work.
> > >>
> > >>So I had to create a column in potgres called 'sentido' and all the 
> > >>rows
> > >>containing '>'.
> > >>
> > >>Is this a bug?
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >What's the error message ?
> > >Can you run the query from the pgsql monitor ?
> > >--strk;
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>The rest of the layer:
> > >>
> > >>LAYER
> > >> NAME "puntosgps"
> > >> CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
> > >> CONNECTION "user=gps password=gps dbname=gps host=localhost"  DATA 
> > >>"gps_geom from (select gid,sentido,tiempo,360-rumbo+90 as 
> > >>rumbo,velocidad,gps_geom,oid from gps_vehi where 
> > tiempo>='2004-05-29 
> > >>05:00:00' and tiempo<='2004-05-30 04:59:59') as foo using 
> > unique gid 
> > >>using srid=1"  TYPE POINT
> > >>PROJECTION
> > >> "proj=latlong"
> > >> "datum=WGS84"
> > >>END
> > >> LABELANGLEITEM 'rumbo'
> > >> LABELITEM 'sentido'
> > >> CLASS
> > >>   NAME 'Parado'
> > >>   EXPRESSION ([velocidad] = 0)
> > >>   SIZE 14
> > >>   SYMBOL 'circle'
> > >>   COLOR 0 0 215
> > >>   OUTLINECOLOR 204 204 204
> > >> END
> > >> CLASS
> > >>   NAME '0-10'
> > >>   EXPRESSION ([velocidad] > 0 AND[velocidad] <= 10)
> > >>   SIZE 14
> > >>   SYMBOL 'circle'
> > >>   COLOR 255 255 204
> > >>   OUTLINECOLOR 204 204 204
> > >>   LABEL
> > >>     TYPE TRUETYPE
> > >>     FORCE TRUE
> > >>     FONT arial
> > >>     ANTIALIAS TRUE
> > >>     COLOR 0 0 0
> > >>     OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
> > >>     SIZE 8
> > >>   END
> > >> END
> > >>...
> > >>...
> > >>
> > >>Thanks a lot.
> > >>
> > >>--
> > >>Vladimir Ilich Guzm?n R.
> > >>------------------------
> > >>http://maintask.com 
> > >>
> > >>
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