[Chameleon] save SLD/open SLD widgets

[Paul Spencer]

Liz,

please file a bug with exact steps to reproduce and attach the generated 
SLD.  I won't get to this for a couple of weeks as I am on vacation :)

Cheers,

Paul

Godwin, Liz wrote:

> In my mind, I would want to do the reverse.  Download/Save an SLD first,
> and then make chnages to it, and apply it to the map.  
> 
> I just assumed that download(save) SLD would extract (WMS request -
> GetStyles) on the active layer.  This doesn't happen because I can do it
> manually using the same service being accessed by the context file. 
> 
> Ok.. So I made my own SLD using a manual request on Mapserver
> (version=1.1.1&request=getStyles&layer=park - using gmap demo wms
> service) and then tried to open this using the open widget, and it
> failed. Nothing happened.  
> 
> What now?
> 
> Liz
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pagameba at magma.ca] 
> Sent: June 18, 2004 5:21 PM
> To: Godwin, Liz
> Cc: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
> Subject: Re: [Chameleon] save SLD/open SLD widgets
> 
> 
> Liz,
> 
> I just tried this (as per comments in bug:
> 
> http://www.maptools.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=456
> 
> and it works fine for me ... what exactly are you trying to do?  A layer
> 
> must have classes and styles associated with it to be available for 
> extracting an SLD document for it.
> 
> So I should explain ...
> 
> In the client map file (either loaded by Context or MAP file) you will 
> have WMS layers.  When you Upload an SLD, the SLD is applied to the 
> layers in the map file by finding a layer of the appropriate name for 
> each NamedLayer element in the SLD, and then classes and styles are 
> created for each rule/symbolizer.  When you download the SLD document, 
> it does the reverse ... so for each WMS layer, it will create a 
> NamedLayer in the generated SLD and create rules and symbolizers for 
> each of the class/styles on each layer.  Right now, the only way to 
> create these classes/styles is to upload an SLD first or use the 
> sample_other with the SECTPopup widget (which does have some problems 
> still), or create a MAP file with WMS client layers and create 
> classes/styles on them (if you do this, you need to add a metadata item 
> to your layer "wms_sld_body" "auto" (I think this is right)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul
> 
> Godwin, Liz wrote:
> 
> 
>>Could someone (Paul ? ) please explain how the Open/Save SLD widgets 
>>are
>>supposed to work?  When I try to use them (in ogc sample) it says that
> 
> 
>>there are no layers or classes to export.  Should I be doing something
> 
> 
>>first?  Is there a setting somewhere?
>> 
>>Thanks!
>> 
>>Liz Godwin
>>
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