[mapserver-users] I've been accused of not using things the way they were intended, but . . . can a getcapabilities request be run through the MapServer TEMPLATE for output?

[Brent Fraser]

Bob,

   I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do (on the mapserver 
side or the Autocad side!).  Do you want mapserver to return a list of 
layers (when sent an OGC GetCapabilities or equivalent non-standard 
request) in a format of your choosing, similar to the way 
template-driven output 
(http://mapserver.org/output/template_output.html) returns feature info 
in a custom format ?

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser

On 1/28/2013 8:02 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
>
> All,
>
> So, I was thinking about adding support for Raster pulling from 
> AutoCAD work sessions directly.  We've had this capability in place 
> for a number of years using MapServer calls to each layer 
> individually.  I'm researching the idea of rebuilding the importing 
> routines but with the added functionality of reading a getcapabilities 
> call to flesh out the listing of the available layers in the server.  
> Yes I know there is a FDO provider in AutoCAD, but that is only 
> available in Map and Civil, not regular AutoCAD (or ARCH, still??) 
> Versions which we also support.
>
> First thought was to build a XML parser as a separate web service, 
> that would make the call(s) to mapserver.  This would output the data 
> in a AutoCAD readable form such as AutoLISP.  Another thought was to 
> read our GeoMoose MapBook, an XML file, for listing out the available 
> layers behind MapServer, this has the advantage of using our existing 
> tools and methods for access the data and it would be completely 
> automated with the GeoMoose MapBook becoming the master data catalog.
>
> Whatever comes of this will also be eventually morphed into a Feature 
> importer (WFS, etc) as well, which we also already have in place, but 
> in a manner that could be improved.
>
> So, back to the question, can a XML return from MapServer be passed 
> through a TEMPLATE to change the output?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bobb
>
>
>
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