[OpenLayers-Dev] tinyows and OL WFS Filters using PropertyIsLike

[Tim Schaub]

Hey Paul-

See if the patch for #2301 does the trick for you.

http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2301

Tim

Tim Schaub wrote:
> Paul Spencer wrote:
>> I have discovered that in the tinyows schema, it has escape for v1 and  
>> escapeChar for v1_1_0 so I am going to go ahead and prepare a patch  
>> based on option 2 below by adding PropertyIsLike to the v1_1_0 code.   
>> If this ends up being wrong, we can discuss it in the ticket that I  
>> will create for the patch.
>>
> 
> Glancing at the Filter Encoding specs (1.0.0 and 1.1.0) it looks like 
> there are some typos in the 1.0.0 docs.  The prose mentions escapeChar 
> but the examples use escape.  When I've pointed out discrepancies like 
> this before, I've been told the schema is the final word.
> 
> http://schemas.opengis.net/filter/1.0.0/filter.xsd
> http://schemas.opengis.net/filter/1.1.0/filter.xsd
> 
> So it is "escape" in 1.0.0 and "escapeChar" in 1.1.0.  This should be 
> patched in the filter formats.
> 
> Tim
> 
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 2009-10-06, at 5:21 PM, Paul Spencer wrote:
>>
>>> Hey WFS gurus ... I am using OL with a WFS layer against tinyows with
>>> a layer filter using PropertyIsLike and tinyows is coughing up a lung
>>> because the filter is not passing schema validation.  Looking into
>>> this further, it seems that tinyows' schema is expecting an attribute
>>> called escapeChar but OL is passing an attribute called escape.  I've
>>> made it work by hacking OpenLayers.Format.Filter.v1 writers to put
>>> escapeChar in the output but I am wondering what the right fix is:
>>>
>>> 1) is escapeChar the right attribute name in v1, in which case both
>>> the reader and writer for PropertyIsLike should be changed?
>>>
>>> 2) is escape the right attribute in v1 and escapeChar in v1_1_0, in
>>> which case the reader and writer needs overrides for PropertyIsLike in
>>> v1_1_0?
>>>
>>> 3) is escape the right attribute in both versions and tinyows is  
>>> wrong?
>>>
>>> If there is a change needed in OpenLayers, I'll do the patch if
>>> someone tells me what the right answer is :)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Paul
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