Hi, Another possibility: somevalue = "filter \"datum between '2002-8-8' and '2002-8-9'\"";
Perhaps this works. Arnd -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Heiko Schröter Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. April 2009 09:45 An: Steve Lime; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Betreff: Re: [mapserver-users] Passing single quoted strings On Mittwoch, 22. April 2009 18:07:11 you wrote: I've tested teh scenario with 3 different filter strings and attached the mapserver error logs with DEBUG 5 (in case need be). The resulting URL strings are taken from apache access log file. Please let me know if you need the full URL. Thanks and Regards Heiko The OL call: sacurabiglayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "SACURABIG", "http://kahlo1/cgi-bin/mapserv";, {map:'/home/schroete/sciadaten/MapServer/country98/heiko5.map', layers: sacura_big, "map.layer[SACURABIG]": somevalue, transparent: true}, {singleTile:true, isBaseLayer: false, buffer:5, wrapDateLine: true, queryable: true}); Setting of the string in OL: somevalue = "filter "+"'"+" datum between "+"'"+"2002-8-8"+"'"+" and "+"'"+" 2002-8-9 "+"''"; Results: MAP.LAYER%5BSACURABIG%5D=filter%20'%20datum%20between%20'2002-8-8'%20and%20' %202002-8-9%20''& (ms_error_assembled_string.txt) Setting of the string in OL: somevalue = "filter 'datum between '2002-8-8' and '2002-8-9' '"; MAP.LAYER%5BSACURABIG%5D=filter%20'datum%20between%20'2002-8-8'%20and%20'200 2-8-9'%20'& (ms_error_unescaped_string.txt) Setting of the string in OL: somevalue = "filter 'datum between \'2002-8-8\' and \'2002-8-9\' '"; MAP.LAYER%5BSACURABIG%5D=filter%20'datum%20between%20'2002-8-8'%20and%20'200 2-8-9'%20'& (ms_error_escaped_single_quotes.txt) The Mapfile Layer definition: LAYER CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS NAME "SACURABIG" PROCESSING "CLOSE_CONNECTION=DEFER" OPACITY 60 STATUS ON METADATA "wms_title" "sacurabig layer" "wms_srs" "init=epsg:4326" END PROJECTION "init=epsg:4326" END CONNECTION "user=fei password=foo dbname=fum host=kahlo1" DATA "geocenter from sacura_big" VALIDATION 'filter' "^." # Just for testing END FILTER "orbitnr=0" TYPE POINT SIZEUNITS meters CLASS NAME "sacura_big_class" STYLE COLOR [farbe] SYMBOL "circle" SIZE 35000 END END END # Layer > What does the URL OL generate look like? I'm curious how it escapes > the text for the URL. That should give us a hint. > > Steve > > >>> Heiko Schröter <schro...@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de> 04/21/09 1:53 > >>> AM > > Hello, > > i have to pass single quoted strings from Open Layer through mapserver > to a postgis/postgres database. > > i.e. "filter 'value=1 and datum between '2005-1-1' and '2005-1-3' "; > The postgres db expects (afaik) the date in a single quoted string. > > The problem is that mapserver stops scanning the filter string when > coming across the second single quote and bails out. > > The Validation string in the mapfile: > VALIDATION > 'filter' "^." > END > > Even when allowing single quotes explicitly by inserting escaped > single quotes in the validation string it doesn't work. Escaping the > single quotes in the assembled OL string won't help either. > > Does anyone has an idea of how to pass such strings through mapserver ? > > Now i do use an ugly hack of converting the date to abstime on the > client side (with all the UTC converting hassle) and pass the integer > to the db. > i.e. "filter 'value = 1 and abstime between "+fromDate+" and > "+toDate+"'"; > > MapServer version 5.4.0-rc1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG > OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV > SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS > INPUT=SHAPEFILE > > Thanks and Regards > Heiko > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
