[mapserver-users] WMS GetStyles and class group

[Liz Godwin]

Bug reported: 2984 <http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2984>

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Yewondwossen Assefa <yassefa at dmsolutions.ca
> wrote:

> Hi Liz,
>
>  From your description, this seems to be a bug.
> Yes, please enter a bug on it and assign it to me and I will add a fix to
> it for the next release.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best Regards.
>
>
> Liz Godwin wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am using MapServer 5.2.0
>>
>> I have a WMS set up with various named styles for a particular layer using
>> the CLASS/GROUP syntax.  I've noticed that in the capabilities document, I
>> get expected output of all the possible styles (multiple < Style > elements)
>> including name for reference so I can refer to it later.
>>
>> However, when I do a GetStyles on this layer, I get but a single UserStyle
>> with all of the different Rules (classes) listed.  Each Rule has a name, but
>> this is the CLASS->NAME value, and not the CLASS->GROUP reference.
>>
>> I read through various bugs on the subject of this enhancement, and
>> whatever else i saw that was relevant, but I couldn't figure out if this is
>> a bug, or expected behaviour.  I was expecting something more in line with
>> what was in the RFC [http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-39.html]
>> - having a named layer with multiple NamedStyles.  Or something at least
>> where the reference to the style would be referenced.
>>
>> This isn't urgent for me, but I was curious as to whether I should report
>> a bug on this.
>>
>>
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