Hi devs,
One of the issues I've run into when explaining MapServer to colleagues is the
TEMPLATE keyword. The docs don't really explain its purpose, or mention how it
makes a layer "queryable" [1]. I also ran into myself this week when a layer
wasn't displaying in the OGC Features API as I forgot to add TEMPLATE to the
LAYER definition.
Should dropping the requirement to add a TEMPLATE to a LAYER to make it
queryable be considered in a future release?
There are more and more examples of the following, which is hard to explain to
new users:
LAYER
TEMPLATE "ttt"
# or
# TEMPLATE VOID
...
There are also many cases in the codebase where this is set automatically
anyway:
layer->template = msStrdup("ttt");
The only problem I can see is that it could accidentally allow feature
attributes to "leak" out, e.g. for LAYERs with a "select * from tbl", but there
is a prevalence of examples when TEMPLATE is set to a fake value anyway.
Are there any other side-effects if it were set to be "on" by default?
Seth
[1] https://mapserver.org/mapfile/layer.html#mapfile-layer-template
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