Re: [mapserver-users] serving WMS GetFeatureInfo to ESRI JavaScript client
Hey Steve, Thanks for the reply. I flailed with this for quite a while. I'm not an Esri user and the vendor that I'm supposed to support is unfamiliar with WMS. I was trying to follow an Esri example that was returning XML for GetFeatureInfo requests but I was making a lot of (bad) guesses. In the end I built a very basic app with the Esri JavaScript client that displayed GetFeatureInfo responses in a popup. So I've proven that it can be done which allows me to throw the ball into the vendor's court. To sort of answer my own question, plain unformatted text with a text/html mime type displays in the Esri JavaScript client (jsapi) attribute popup. XML does not appear to be necessary or helpful. Thanks, Rich On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 8:59 AM Steve Lime wrote: > Hi Rich! I didn't see any replies to this email and I don't have any > particular experience. That said, it seems to me that the vendor that is > receiving the content would want it in some sort of presentation agnostic > format so that they can apply a design, choose which attributes to display > and so forth. So HTML doesn't make that much sense and standard XML/GML > responses would be better IMHO. > > --Steve > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 5:31 PM Richard Greenwood < > richard.greenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I need to serve WMS GetFeatureInfo requests in a suitable format for an >> ESRI JavaScript client. I'm asking if anyone has any tips or experience >> they could share. >> >> I'm not developing the client. I'm serving the content to a >> company that's used to using ESRI REST services and doesn't have any >> experience with WMS. I don't have any experience with the ESRI JavaScript >> client. >> >> From what little I've found so far the request is typically >> INFO_FORMAT=text/html >> but the response is formatted as XML. Should the response mime type be >> text/xml or does it matter? Is there an XML structure that the ESRI client >> expects to receive or is that entirely up to the app developer? >> >> Thanks, >> Rich >> >> -- >> Richard W. Greenwood, PLS >> www.greenwoodmap.com >> ___ >> MapServer-users mailing list >> MapServer-users@lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >> > -- Richard W. Greenwood, PLS www.greenwoodmap.com ___ MapServer-users mailing list MapServer-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] serving WMS GetFeatureInfo to ESRI JavaScript client
Hi Rich! I didn't see any replies to this email and I don't have any particular experience. That said, it seems to me that the vendor that is receiving the content would want it in some sort of presentation agnostic format so that they can apply a design, choose which attributes to display and so forth. So HTML doesn't make that much sense and standard XML/GML responses would be better IMHO. --Steve On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 5:31 PM Richard Greenwood < richard.greenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to serve WMS GetFeatureInfo requests in a suitable format for an > ESRI JavaScript client. I'm asking if anyone has any tips or experience > they could share. > > I'm not developing the client. I'm serving the content to a company that's > used to using ESRI REST services and doesn't have any experience with WMS. > I don't have any experience with the ESRI JavaScript client. > > From what little I've found so far the request is typically > INFO_FORMAT=text/html > but the response is formatted as XML. Should the response mime type be > text/xml or does it matter? Is there an XML structure that the ESRI client > expects to receive or is that entirely up to the app developer? > > Thanks, > Rich > > -- > Richard W. Greenwood, PLS > www.greenwoodmap.com > ___ > MapServer-users mailing list > MapServer-users@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > ___ MapServer-users mailing list MapServer-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
[mapserver-users] serving WMS GetFeatureInfo to ESRI JavaScript client
I need to serve WMS GetFeatureInfo requests in a suitable format for an ESRI JavaScript client. I'm asking if anyone has any tips or experience they could share. I'm not developing the client. I'm serving the content to a company that's used to using ESRI REST services and doesn't have any experience with WMS. I don't have any experience with the ESRI JavaScript client. >From what little I've found so far the request is typically INFO_FORMAT=text/html but the response is formatted as XML. Should the response mime type be text/xml or does it matter? Is there an XML structure that the ESRI client expects to receive or is that entirely up to the app developer? Thanks, Rich -- Richard W. Greenwood, PLS www.greenwoodmap.com ___ MapServer-users mailing list MapServer-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
