[mapserver-users] Validation error (but working!)

[Ben Madin]

G'day all,

I've noticed that when I turn layer (going out as a WMS service) debugging on, I am getting the messages shown below (the layer is rendering as I expected, with only the names for the selected country showing up).

As I said, it is working, but what is wrong with my patterns - I suspect other layers with the same validation patterns would be giving the same errors, but I haven't investigated them (as they are working)

My confusion is :

Either the validation is working (and the log message is wrong), or 

I am failing to understand how the validation is meant to work, or

The validation is failing, but not being respected…

any clues 

cheers

Ben



Log messages :

[Mon Apr  2 14:29:40 2012].960342   runtime substitution - Layer provnames, tag %CCODE%...
[Mon Apr  2 14:29:40 2012].960725 msValidateParameter(): Regular expression error. Parameter pattern validation failed.
[Mon Apr  2 14:29:40 2012].960759 msValidateParameter(): Regular expression error. Parameter pattern validation failed.
[Mon Apr  2 14:29:40 2012].960775   runtime substitution - Layer provnames, tag %YEAR%...
[Mon Apr  2 14:29:40 2012].961353 msDrawMap(): rendering using outputformat named AGG (AGG/PNG).
[Mon Apr  2 14:29:40 2012].993291 msPostGISLayerIsOpen called.

The layer has a validation pattern and defaults set:

		METADATA 
			"wms_title"		"provnames"
			"wms_srs"		"EPSG:4326"
			"wms_group_title" "Administrative"
			"default_ccode"		"AUS"
			"default_year"		"2010"
		END
		VALIDATION
			'ccode' '[A-Z]{3}'
			'year' '20[0-1][0-9]'
		END

and the query is :

        DATA	"geom from (
            	SELECT  recordid as gid, geom, name as pname
            	FROM    geolayer
            	WHERE validitystarts <= '%YEAR%' 
            		AND (validityends >= '%YEAR%' OR validityends IS NULL)
            		AND country LIKE '%CCODE%'
            	) AS foo USING UNIQUE gid USING SRID=4326"
        TYPE	ANNOTATION
        labelmaxscaledenom 5000000
        LABELITEM pname
        CLASS
			LABEL
			  COLOR  150 150 250
			  OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
			  FONT "lucida"
			  TYPE truetype
			  SIZE 9
			  POSITION AUTO
			  PARTIALS FALSE
		   END
		END


and the version is :

MapServer version 6.0.2 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=KML SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=CAIRO SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE