[mapserver-users] Passing an additional parameter via URL for WMS request - doesn't work anymore with new mapserver?

[Till Adams]

Stefan,

from mapserver 6 on you must define the default values for the
parameters in your metadata-tag and also provide a validation-pattern.

You'll find more here:
http://mapserver.org/cgi/runsub.html

Regards, Till



On 21.08.2012 16:07, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I used to pass a parameter in a WMS request in order to specify which country should be highlighted. The MAPFILE would read that and, via an EXPRESSION, set all country but the selected one to a bit of opacity:
> 
> 	DATA "the_geom FROM (SELECT xxx FROM capitals WHERE capitals.id_country <> %id_country%) AS foo USING UNIQUE gid USING srid=4326"
> 
> That doesn't work anymore after upgrading our machine. So, I am not 100% sure if this comes from mapserver, or if there is anything else involved. But it seems more like a mapserver problem, as the error-message is
> 
> <ServiceException>
> msDrawMap(): Image handling error. Failed to draw layer named 'capitals_selected'.
> msPostGISLayerWhichShapes(): Query error. Error executing query: ERROR:  syntax error at or near "%"
> LINE 1: ...als.gid FROM capitals WHERE capitals.id_country = %id_countr...
>                                                              ^
>  
> msValidateParameter(): Regular expression error. Parameter pattern validation failed.
> msValidateParameter(): Regular expression error. Parameter pattern validation failed.
> msValidateParameter(): Regular expression error. Parameter pattern validation failed.
> msValidateParameter(): Regular expression error. Parameter pattern validation failed.
> </ServiceException>
> 
> 
> Thanks for any hints/clarification.
> 
> Stefan
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