[MS4W-Users] MapServer 6.0.0-RC1 : 2 bugs

[Thomas RAFFIN]

Hi,



Le 05/05/2011 21:58, Jeff McKenna a écrit :
> Hello Thomas,
>
> Thanks for your feedback (yes please always send your feedback to the
> mailing list).  My comments are inline below:
>
>> On 11-05-05 11:14 AM, Thomas RAFFIN wrote:
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>> I've just done few tests with ms4w 3.0.2 and mapserver 6.0.0-rc1, and I
>>> think I've found 2 bugs. But I don't know if it is due to ms4w or
>>> mapserver itself.
>>>
>>> 1) mapObj::clone method undefined
>>>
>>> With a simple PHP script like that:
>>> <?php
>>> $map = new MapObj('blabla.map');
>>> $map2 = $map->clone();
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> I've got this error:
>>> "Call to undefined method mapObj::clone()"
> This was a good question, I really had to dig into this myself to find
> out.  In fact for MapServer 6.0 there are no more clone methods, and I
> found a mention of this in this document (which is not yet public)
> http://www.mapserver.org/trunk/mapscript/php/migration_guide.html
>
> That document contains this statement: "Cloneable objects should be
> cloned with the PHP clone keyword. There are no more clone methods."
>
> and also:
>
> "Class methods that have been removed:
>
>           ...
>           classObj: clone
>           styleObj: clone
>           mapObj: clone
> "
>
> Unfortunately this information isn't yet in the main MIGRATION_GUIDE,
> but thanks to your feedback we will make sure this is more clear.

Yes, here ( http://mapserver.org/trunk/MIGRATION_GUIDE.html ) it is not 
the same.

> So, in your case, you might do something like this instead for MapServer
> 6.0 :
>
>      <?php
>        $map = new MapObj('blabla.map');
>        $map2 = clone $map;
>      ?>
>
> Sorry for this confusion.
>
>
>>> 2) OFFSET tag in LABEL seems to follow scale (if man use
>>> SYMBOLSCALEDENOM int he LAYER), whereas in previous MS version no...
>>> Maybe it is not considerate as a bug, but a new bahaviour.
>>> MAP
>>> ....
>>> LAYER
>>> ....
>>> SYMBOLSCALEDENOM 10000
>>> LABEL
>>> OFFSET 10 10
>>> END
>>> END
>>> END
>>>
> I don't fully understand your issue.  You might want to bring that
> question to the main MapServer-users mailing list and ask there, as I
> don't know the answer.  I don't think anything specific changed
> regarding OFFSET (I do know that MapServer 6.0 allows for label STYLE
> objects, which is described in the migration guide, but I don't think
> that is related to your question).

OK, I will talk about that on the ms mailing list.

Thanks,

Thomas

> -jeff
>
>