[mapserver-users] Oracle Layer: how to set context prior to fetching the data

[Martin Icking]

One of the Oracle based sources we are publishing is using Oracle context
variables to enable Oracle's fine grained access control.
So we are in the need to set these context variables (e.g. current username)
prior to doing the select defined by MapServer's DATA statement. In other
applications we do that by calling a set_context (...) stored procedure
prior to any data requests.
Is there any possibility in MapServer to send a pre-request statement to the
database? A current work-around is to set the context at logon time but that
means that we need a new logon for every request that needs a different user
context, not optimal for websites with many users. We'd prefer to have a
single logon that can be re-used for all requests.
If there is currently no way to handle this in MapServer we'd like to extend
the Oracle layer's capabilities. Any suggestion by the MS developers on
where we should place the needed extension in the mapfile (e.g. adding an
additional keyword at the USING part of the data statement or using new
layer metadata)?
Any interest in generalizing this approach?

Tx
Martin



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