[mapserver-users] QSTRING HELP

[Steve Lime]

1) You didn’t say which version (hopefully latest, greatest) but you should
only need the entry in the validation block. Note an “anything” validation
is not recommended.
2) A qstring with no qitem is interpreted as a MapServer logical expression
I believe, and your example is not a valid expression. What exactly is
returned, I mean, what does empty mean? There might indicate a bug and a
expression parsing error is being suppressed some where.
3) A qitem+qstring is meant to cover a very simple use case. You’d need to
use a plain qstring or even better, WFS to do something more complex.

On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 8:54 AM Carlos Neves (LREC) <cneves at lrec.pt> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I need to query and highlite a map in a Mapserver layer using ITEMNQUERY
>
> 1st -  I have validate qstring for any character
>
>          METADATA
>              "wms_title" "counties"
>              "qstring_validation_pattern" ".*"
>          END
>          VALIDATION
>             "qstring" ".*"
>          END
>
> 2nd - I'm not sure, but it seems in Mapserver Manual that  QITEM is an
> option and you can use expressions like "qstring=county_name = New
> York". I have no mapserver return error  but the query allways returns
> empty.
>
>
> 3rd - With CGI qlayer=counties&qitem=county_name&qstring=New  it works,
> but i need to use others items  and others search conditions like
> substrings like "New Jersey" or "New York"
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> Carlos
>
>
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