Seems like I *can* do the following per the docs at 
http://mapserver.org/cgi/runsub.html (more below)
On Oct 27, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:

> (I thought I had asked this question and received and answer, but can't find 
> it now... maybe I just dreamed it and never did ask. Here goes...)
> 
> 
> I have a map with a layer with 100s of classes. I want to send a class name 
> via the URI, and get back a map of only that class. So, the following will 
> return the map with all the classes
> 
>       http://server/map
> 
> and, the following will return the map with only foo and bar classes
> 
>       http://server/map?classes=foo,bar
> 
> The above URI pattern is just a suggestion. How can I achieve the above?
> 
> One thought comes is to split the layer with 100s of classes into 100s of 
> layers each with one class.
> 
> In any case, what is the advised way forward?
> 
> 

So, I tried the following

        CONNECTION "host=localhost port=5432 dbname=macromap user=postgres 
password=postgres"
        CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS
        PROCESSING "CLOSE_CONNECTION=DEFER"
        DATA "the_geom FROM table USING UNIQUE gid USING srid=4326"
        FILTER "class_name = '%class%'"

        METADATA
                'class_name_validation_pattern' '^[A-Za-z]+$'
        END

And, requested the map at 
http://server/cgi-bin/app?mode=map&layers=layer&class=Foo but got the following 
error --

        select 
"interval_name",encode(ST_AsBinary(ST_Force_2D("the_geoms"),'NDR'),'hex') as 
geom,
        "gid" from table where the_geom && 
GeomFromText('POLYGON((-180.150250417362 -90,-180.150250417362 
        90,180.150250417362 90,180.150250417362 -90,-180.150250417362 
-90))',4326) and 
        (class_name = '%class%')

So, %class% didn't get interpolated into the requested value. What am I doing 
wrong?

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