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

[Frank Broniewski]

thanks for the hint, Daniel. I was guessing in that direction, but 
wasn't sure about the consequences.

Frank

Am 29.09.2011 14:06, schrieb Daniel Morissette:
> The DUMP keyword has been made obsolete by the mechanism introduced in
> RFC-67 (http://mapserver.org/es/development/rfc/ms-rfc-67.html) to
> enable/disable OGC requests at the mapfile and layer level. It seems
> that we failed to document this change in the migration guide and to
> update the docs accordingly.
>
> I have reopened ticket #3830 about the docs update:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3830
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 11-09-29 05:48 AM, Frank Broniewski wrote:
>> 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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