[mapserver-users] MapFile viewer

[Umberto Nicoletti]

I for one starred the project. It could be useful for integration testing,
i.e. for use with our CI.
Ivan, thanks for the viewer.

Umberto



On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Ivan Mincik <ivan.mincik at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/14/2012 10:20 AM, Thomas Gratier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What is the advantage compare to OpenLayers built-in viewer (since 6.x
> > version) e.g http://mapserver.org/trunk/fr/openlayers.html ?
>
>
> I do not use that viewer, but it could be one of these:
>
> 1. Works for MapServer < 6.0
>
> 2. Doesn't require web server running on Your machine. It creates its
> own WSGI server which is more like development environments should look
> like (Django dev server).
>
> 3. I am not sure how viewer in MapServer deals with errors in mapfile.
> In my case it prints usable error message to console which is key
> feature for debugging.
>
> 4. Possibilities to override CONNECTION setting - in production we use
> variables substitution ('user=%MYUSER% password=%MYPASSWORD%
> dbname=%MYDBNAME% host=%MYHOST%'). In development I can send there my
> user credentials.
>
> 5. Possibility to override some other parameters line EXTENT. It creates
> possibility to work with many projects with the same base mapfile. I
> will add other overriding options.
>
>
> 6. Or maybe No advantage at all
>
>
> --
> Ivan Mincik
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