re[MAPSERVER-USERS] ad angle from database to rotate symbol -> Symbol definition error

[Käpt'n Haddock]

YA, thank you very much for your help! Things work as expected if I write

ANGLE [orientation]  # orientation being the name of the column of the
postgis-table

Thanks!

I do find it confusing that declaring the column-name with the data
works differently for different options

LABELITEM "columnname"       # LABELITEM [columnname] won't work
ANGLE [columnname]               # ANGLE "columnname" won't work

How could I have figured this out myself? Which part of the
documentation did I miss?
best regards
paul




Yewondwossen Assefa schrieb:
> Paul,
>
>  I think the syntax for attribute binding is something like
>    ANGLE [orientation] (attribute value in brackets). Could you try 
> changing you map file and give it a try.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Paul L wrote:
>> Dear List
>>
>> I'm not the first one to ask this question, but I am unable to use 
>> the older
>> list-posts as in the meantime (mapserver 5.0) the ANGLEITEM seems to be
>> deprecated, if I understand this document
>> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-19
>> correctly.
>>
>> I am reading points from a postgis-table and would like Mapserver to 
>> rotate
>> the symbols of each point according to the rotation-value stored as 
>> integer
>> in the same table. It works fine as long as I hardcode the angle like
>> "ANGLE=45". As soon as I try setting ANGLE="orientation" I get the
>> errormessage:
>> getSymbol(): Symbol definition error. Parsing error near
>> (orientierung):(line 126)
>>
>> Can you help me find my errors?
>> Thank you very much
>> Paul
>>
>> P.S. I can actually read the angle and display it as a label, so it
>> shouldn't be a problem of reading from the database.
>>
>>
>> LAYER
>>
>>     NAME points
>>     TYPE POINT
>>     CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS
>>     CONNECTION "dbname=test_postgis user=postgres password=postgres
>> host=localhost port=5432"
>>     DATA "geometry from (select id, name, orientation, geometry from 
>> points)
>> as foo USING UNIQUE id USING SRID=-1"
>>   STATUS DEFAULT
>>   TRANSPARENCY 65
>>
>>   CLASS
>>       STYLE
>>         SYMBOL "U"
>>         SIZE 15
>>         COLOR 0 0 150
>>         ANTIALIAS TRUE
>>     ANGLE 45
>>     #ANGLE "orientation" #throws error: getSymbol(): Symbol 
>> definition error
>> (..)
>>       END
>>   END
>> END
>
>