[mapserver-users] layer.dump not saved with mapscript

[Frank Broniewski]

Hi,

I have noticed a possible bug with mapscript. The value of layer.dump 
gets not saved in version 6 to the map file, which used to work in 5.6.5.

Please see the following examples:
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import mapscript
 >>> mapscript.msGetVersion()
'MapServer version 5.6.5 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP 
OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE 
SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=FRIBIDI SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT 
SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER 
SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS 
SUPPORTS=RGBA_PNG INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL 
INPUT=SHAPEFILE'
 >>> m = mapscript.mapObj()
 >>> l = mapscript.layerObj()
 >>> l.dump = mapscript.MS_TRUE
 >>> m.insertLayer(l)
0
 >>> m.save('/home/brfr/test.map')
0

creates a layer as follows:
  76   LAYER
  77     DUMP TRUE
  78     NAME "(null)"
  79     STATUS OFF
  80     UNITS METERS
  81   END


while:
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 20 2010, 23:14:04)
[GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import mapscript
 >>> mapscript.msGetVersion()
'MapServer version 6.0.1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG SUPPORTS=PROJ 
SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=CAIRO SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV 
SUPPORTS=FRIBIDI SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT 
SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER 
SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS 
INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE'
 >>> m = mapscript.mapObj()
 >>> l = mapscript.layerObj()
 >>> l.dump = mapscript.MS_TRUE
 >>> m.insertLayer(l)
0
 >>> m.save('/home/brfr/test.map')
0

creates a layer as follows:
   LAYER
     STATUS OFF
     TILEITEM "location"
     UNITS METERS
   END # LAYER

Dump is still in the docs as a valid parameter, so I presume the 
behaviour is not wanted. The above examples are only that, examples. I 
discovered the behaviour with a working mapfile ...

Can someone else confirm this? Or is it only me?

Frank



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