[Mapstorer-devel] Import - Connectiontype OGR

[Hr. J. L. <lo...@lw...>]

Hello Devs:

I'd like to bring up some problems I had recently mapstorer. First two minor issues:

a): The following line is not imported (I assume, it's the fault of the missing space, anyhow, 
mapserver accepts this)

SYMBOLSET'/foo/bar/mysymboly.sym'

b): If there is no output format specified in the mapfile, there will be no 
outputformats defined in mapstorer and therefore there will be no output. 
Again: mapserver displays the data. Maybe this could be checked and in case 
there is no output format defined, define a default one?

And last but not least a more serious issue:
It seems to me, that mapstorer is not able to handle 'virtual spatial data' 
in the current version. From the following three lines the first line is 
imported correctly. The last line is imported in the database as well, but 
I'm not able to find the entry in the gui. The 'CONNECTIONTYPE' entry is 
ignored. Looking in the database I found that the corresponding field is of 
type integer. Is there any 'lookup table' or something, that can be used to 
add the connectiontype OGR?

CONNECTION '/foo/bar/MyDataFile.ovf'
CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
DATA 'MYDATA'

After the import, that works without any errors, the layer is not editable 
via the gui. Trying to do so, mapstorer prints out the error: 

"Error! Could not open dbase database file '/My/Data/Path/MYDATA'."

Likely mapstorer is trying to open a shapefile table, which does not exist.

Would it be a great effort to take care about the last issue? Maybe you 
could give me some pointers, so I could have a look at this myself?

Thank you in advance

Johannes