Geospecialling » Dynamic Authoring http://www.geospecialling.com Being a (G)IS Developer... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:11:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mapguide 2009 / OS 2.0 Get Selected Key Values VB.NET Example and the dreaded MgSelection.GenerateFilter Issue http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/07/mapguide-2009-os-2-0-get-selected-key-values-vb-net-example-and-the-dreaded-mgselection-generatefilter-issue/ http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/07/mapguide-2009-os-2-0-get-selected-key-values-vb-net-example-and-the-dreaded-mgselection-generatefilter-issue/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:12:00 +0000 Darrin Maidlow http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/07/mapguide-2009-os-2-0-get-selected-key-values-vb-net-example-and-the-dreaded-mgselection-generatefilter-issue/ Tonight I came across the .  I had read about it, and made a mental note that one day it would be an issue.  That note wasn’t very good, and I completely forgot about it.   I was wrapping up the updates around the report this eve and fortunately I bothered to select the entire map and run through a report.

RADE Report - but what, only 20 records returned?

Report looked good.  The results were sorting, checkboxes working.   Wait a minute, I selected the entire map.  There should be more than twenty items returned.  So a quick search of my twelve thousand saved e-mails from the turned up what needed to be done.  Fortunately Autodesk added a GenerateFilters call to MgSelection.  This call returns an MgStringCollection of filters.

Basically the solution to this problem is to use GenerateFilters instead of GenerateFilter, and loop through the results.  Each time, appending the returned keys to the complete list.  For example:

   1: Public Shared Function GetSelectedKeysString(ByRef siteConn As MgSiteConnection, _
   2:     ByRef resSvc As MgResourceService, ByVal oMap As MgMap, ByVal SessionId As String, _
   3:     ByVal SelectionXML As String, ByVal layerResID As MgResourceIdentifier, _
   4:     ByVal keyFieldName As String) As String
   5:  
   6:     Dim szKeys As String = ""
   7:     Dim oSel As New MgSelection(oMap)
   8:     oSel.FromXml(SelectionXML)
   9:     Dim curLay As MgLayerBase
  10:     'isolate the layer
  11:     For Each layerItem As MgLayerBase In oSel.GetLayers
  12:         If layerItem.Name = layerResID.Name Then
  13:             curLay = layerItem
  14:         End If
  15:     Next
  16:  
  17:     Dim featSvc As MgFeatureService = siteConn.CreateService(MgServiceType.FeatureService)
  18:     Dim queryOptions As New MgFeatureQueryOptions
  19:     Dim featureClassName As String = curLay.GetFeatureClassName
  20:     'workaround using GenerateFilters and looping through the results as needed
  21:     Dim featureReader As MgFeatureReader
  22:     Dim filters As MgStringCollection = oSel.GenerateFilters(curLay, featureClassName, 20)
  23:     Dim filterCnt As Integer = 0
  24:     While filterCnt < filters.GetCount
  25:         queryOptions.SetFilter(filters.GetItem(filterCnt))
  26:         featureReader = featSvc.SelectFeatures(New MgResourceIdentifier(curLay.GetFeatureSourceId), featureClassName, queryOptions)
  27:         While featureReader.ReadNext
  28:             If szKeys = "" Then
  29:                 szKeys = ConvertPropertyToString(featureReader, keyFieldName)
  30:             Else
  31:                 szKeys &= "," & ConvertPropertyToString(featureReader, keyFieldName)
  32:             End If
  33:         End While
  34:         featureReader.Close()
  35:         featureReader.Dispose()
  36:         filterCnt += 1
  37:     End While
  38:     Return szKeys
  39: End Function

 

In this code, we get the selection from the MgMap object and then isolate the layer in question.  Then we generate the collection of filters and loop through them.  Each time, adding the appropriate value to the list of keys.  Note the use of ConverPropertyToString, this needs to be used to ensure that the various data types are converted over to string.

I’ve included this function as well as a couple other handy related ones in the attached zip file

.  If you’re looking for a C# example of how to use GenerateFilters one is provided in the .

After making these changes my reports now look all proper! hurray.  Maybe I can hit the sack now?  nahh.

RADE report - but this time everything looks ok 

]]> http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/07/mapguide-2009-os-2-0-get-selected-key-values-vb-net-example-and-the-dreaded-mgselection-generatefilter-issue/feed/ 0 Mapguide Enterprise – Cannot Select Items in DWF and AJAX viewer – Again http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/07/mapguide-enterprise-cannot-select-items-in-dwf-and-ajax-viewer-again/ http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/07/mapguide-enterprise-cannot-select-items-in-dwf-and-ajax-viewer-again/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:41:00 +0000 Darrin Maidlow http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/07/mapguide-enterprise-cannot-select-items-in-dwf-and-ajax-viewer-again/ I had another problem with Mapguide Enterprise 2009 recently pertaining to objects not being selectable.  Unlike my previous post on errors caused by layers, no errors were logged to the Mapguide server logs.  This problem is very likely specific to the enterprise version, as I was using the Autodesk FDO Provider for Oracle.

So a data connection was created pointing to the Oracle 10g schema.  This database contained a number of tables containing Lat/Long point geometry entities.  I created a layer pointing to the table in question.  I created a layer pointing to that data connection.  At this point the entities showed up as expected in the both the DWF and the AJAX viewers.  Once again, I could not select any of the entities.  I checked the server logs, no errors were reported.

In troubleshoot mode, I tried just about everything I could think of but nothing would work.  I simplified the theme, created new layers, removed all other layers from them map.  Eventually I created a new layer from another table.  Luckily, the entities on this layer could be selected.  It must be a problem with the underlying data.  On a hunch, I checked the table definitions – specifically looking at primary keys.  The selectable layer had a primary key defined, the problem layer did not.  (Good thing I cannot take credit for creating this source data =))

So, I created a primary key on the problem table, did a touch on the layer definition (opening the definition in Studio and saving it without any changes) and then left for twenty minutes.  I’m thinking there is some sort of caching going within the server, and I’m not sure how it works.  Immediately reloading the map after adding the primary key did not work – the entities were still not selectable.  When I came back – the items in the viewers were now selectable.

So long story short, if again you cannot select map entities using the Autodesk FDO Provider for Oracle ensure that the source table has a primary key defined.  Hopefully this saves someone some grief =)

]]> http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/07/mapguide-enterprise-cannot-select-items-in-dwf-and-ajax-viewer-again/feed/ 2 Dynamic Authoring in Mapguide Enterprise – Before the Viewer has Loaded http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/05/dynamic-authoring-in-mapguide-enterprise-before-the-viewer-has-loaded/ http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/05/dynamic-authoring-in-mapguide-enterprise-before-the-viewer-has-loaded/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 05:38:00 +0000 Darrin Maidlow http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/05/dynamic-authoring-in-mapguide-enterprise-before-the-viewer-has-loaded/ As a follow up to my previous post on , I wanted to share some examples of using these new objects, so I created this example of doing some dynamic authoring before the map viewer has loaded.  Currently, all of my work is done using Mapguide Enterprise 2009, however this code should work using Mapguide Open 2.0 as well.  I believe I had this code working using Mapguide 2008 initially, and then migrated it over to the 2009 platform.  Feel free to give that shot if you are still using Mapguide 2008.  Some changes would be needed in the .Net objects project – to remove 2009 specific XSD files and possibly reference some of the older XSDs for things like layers.

One of my first tasks with Mapguide Enterprise was to build a map on the fly.  There were examples for adding layers to the map programmatically after the viewer had loaded, but this didn’t match the desired flow of my application.  Also, having come from years of Mapguide 6.5 and lower -  I was trying to avoid as much client side automation as possible.  The new was one of the things that excited me the most about Mapguide Enterprise / Mapguide Open Source

I’ve pasted the full, commented code here, as well as attached a solution containing the two projects needed.  Note these projects are Visual Studio 2008 projects.  Please feel free to use this code for learning purposes.  If it helps you out, link back to this article =)

If you choose instead to create a new project, be sure to add a project or DLL reference to the OSGeo.Mapguide.Objects.dll file we created previously .  The project I’ve included here contains both the sample Web Application project, as well as a copy of the .NET objects for Mapguide project.  It should be almost ready for the running.  Also ensure there is a reference to the Microsoft.XML.Schema.Linq namespace added to the project.  Also copy the required .DLL files from the Autodesk provided .NET viewer\bin folder to the web projects bin folder.  I did not include these here as I was not sure of the legality of doing so.

First load up the into your Mapguide repository.  For the purposes of this example, open the Map definition in Mapguide Studio (or equivalent) and remove all the layers and layer groups from the map.  If you forget to do this you will get a Duplicate Object error when you load up the map.  Once that is done, you are ready to try out the code.

You should be able top unzip the zip and open the MGEDynamicAuthoringSample.sln file with Visual Studio.  Pretty much the only thing you may need to change are the constants to match your machine specific items:

 

   1: 'set some contants up - webconfig.ini, map viewer url, Map, Layout and Layer locatinos
   2: Private Const gszWebConfig As String = "C:\inetpub\MapGuideEnterprise2009\WebServerExtensions\www\webconfig.ini"
   3: Private Const gszViewerUrl As String = "http://localhost/mapguide2009/mapviewerdwf"
   4: Private Const gszMapResID As String = "Library://Samples/Sheboygan/Maps/Sheboygan.MapDefinition"
   5: Private Const gszLayerFolderResID As String = "Library://Samples/Sheboygan/Layers.Folder"
   6: Private Const gszLayoutResID As String = "Library://Samples/Sheboygan/Layouts/SheboyganAsp.WebLayout"
   7: 'lets run with Administrator for noew to eliminate permission problems.  Update your password as needed, or specify your
   8: 'own credentials if you are comfortable with setting up repository permissions.
   9: Private Const gszMGUser As String = "Administrator"
  10: Private Const gszMGPass As String = "admin"


Once you’ve changed all the needed settings, you should be good to go.  Run the code in Visual Studio and you should now see a map similar to the default Sheboygan map.  The key difference is that all of the layers will exist within the layer group we created programmatically.

Commented Codebehind:

   1: Imports OSGeo.MapGuide
   2: 'we still need to import and use system.xml, but don't really need to use many parts of the XML
   3: 'functionality =)
   4: Imports System.Xml
   5: Partial Public Class _Default
   6:     '' 'So for this example, we're going to use the sheboygan sample package available from 
   7:     '' ' http://mapguide.osgeo.org/download/releases/2.0.x-samples.  Be sure to grab both the 
   8:     '' ' dotnetviewstample.zip as well as the sheboygan.mgp.  Import the package using
   9:     '' ' the mapguide site administrator.  I've tried to use the default resource paths
  10:     '' ' but some tweaking of map will be needed
  11:     '' ' 
  12:     '' ' Open the map definition in Studio, and remove all the layers from Samples/Sheboygan/Maps/Sheboygan.MapDefinition 
  13:     '' ' we're going to add them dynamically    
  14:  
  15:     Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
  16:  
  17:     'set some contants up - webconfig.ini, map viewer url, Map, Layout and Layer locatinos
  18:     Private Const gszWebConfig As String = "C:\inetpub\MapGuideEnterprise2009\WebServerExtensions\www\webconfig.ini"
  19:     Private Const gszViewerUrl As String = "http://localhost/mapguide2009/mapviewerdwf"
  20:     Private Const gszMapResID As String = "Library://Samples/Sheboygan/Maps/Sheboygan.MapDefinition"
  21:     Private Const gszLayerFolderResID As String = "Library://Samples/Sheboygan/Layers.Folder"
  22:     Private Const gszLayoutResID As String = "Library://Samples/Sheboygan/Layouts/SheboyganAsp.WebLayout"
  23:     Private Const gszMGUser As String = "Administrator"
  24:     Private Const gszMGPass As String = "admin"
  25:  
  26:     ''' <summary>
  27:     ''' Page_Load does everything =)  Be sure to copy the dll files from your mapviewernet\bin folder to this projects bin folder.
  28:     ''' I did not include them as that might have violated some autodesk license.    
  29:     ''' </summary>
  30:     ''' <param name="sender"></param>
  31:     ''' <param name="e"></param>
  32:     ''' <remarks></remarks>
  33:     Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
  34:  
  35:         'setup our siteconnection
  36:         Dim siteConnection As New MgSiteConnection
  37:         siteConnection = CreateMGSession(gszMGUser, gszMGPass, gszWebConfig)
  38:         Dim szSessionId As String = siteConnection.GetSite.CreateSession()
  39:  
  40:         'create our connection to the resource service
  41:         Dim resSvc As MgResourceService
  42:         resSvc = siteConnection.CreateService(MgServiceType.ResourceService)
  43:  
  44:         'get or set the resourceid of the map to load - in this case i'm just going to hard code it
  45:         Dim mapResourceID As New MgResourceIdentifier(gszMapResID)
  46:  
  47:         'load the existing map from the libary into an XML document
  48:         Dim mapXML As XmlDocument = GetResourceXML(resSvc, mapResourceID)
  49:  
  50:         'so at this point we have an XML document.  Let's try using our new OSGeo.Mapguide.Object classes
  51:         Dim newMapDefinition As New OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.MapDefinition
  52:  
  53:         'to load the xml - call the shared/static method of MapDefinition.Parse on the OuterXML of the XMLDocument
  54:         newMapDefinition = OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.MapDefinition.Parse(mapXML.OuterXml)
  55:  
  56:         'at this point we have a loaded .NET Object containing the map.  Try using Intellisense to see the different methods
  57:         'Lets add a layer group now
  58:  
  59:         'add any needed layer groups to the map.  In this example we're only going to add one.
  60:         Dim szLayerGroupName As String = "NewLayerGroup"
  61:         Dim szLayerGroupAlias As String = "My Layer Group Alias"
  62:         newMapDefinition = AddMapLayerGroup(newMapDefinition, szLayerGroupName, szLayerGroupAlias)
  63:  
  64:         'get or set the resourceid of the folder that contains our layers to add
  65:         Dim layerPath As New MgResourceIdentifier(gszLayerFolderResID)
  66:  
  67:         'so we now have a layer group in our map.  Lets add the layers
  68:         AddFolderOfLayers(resSvc, newMapDefinition, layerPath, szLayerGroupName)
  69:  
  70:         'at this point our map definition is loaded.  Lets convert it back to XML and save it to the session
  71:         Dim newMapDoc As New XmlDocument
  72:         newMapDoc.PreserveWhitespace = True
  73:  
  74:         Dim szXML As String = newMapDefinition.Untyped.ToString
  75:         newMapDoc.LoadXml(szXML)
  76:  
  77:         'create our 'new' resourceID in the session repository
  78:         Dim newMapResourceID As New MgResourceIdentifier("Session:" & szSessionId & "//" & mapResourceID.GetName() & "." & MgResourceType.MapDefinition)
  79:  
  80:         'save the newly created map in the session repository
  81:         CreateSessionResource(resSvc, newMapDoc, szSessionId, newMapResourceID.GetName, MgResourceType.MapDefinition)
  82:  
  83:         'now lets deal with the layout - we need to load up the library layout, update the map definition, and save it to the repository
  84:         Dim layoutResourceID As New MgResourceIdentifier(gszLayoutResID)
  85:         Dim newLayoutResourceID As New MgResourceIdentifier("Session:" & szSessionId & "//" & layoutResourceID.GetName() & "." & MgResourceType.WebLayout)
  86:  
  87:         'same process here, load the XML, parse the XML into the new .net Object
  88:         Dim layoutXML As XmlDocument = GetResourceXML(resSvc, layoutResourceID)
  89:  
  90:         Dim newLayout As New OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.WebLayout
  91:         newLayout = OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.WebLayout.Parse(layoutXML.OuterXml)
  92:  
  93:         'update the map resource ID in the layout to point to our newly created map in the session
  94:         newLayout.Map.ResourceId = newMapResourceID.ToString
  95:  
  96:         'finally go through the motinos to save the layout to the session
  97:         Dim newLayoutXML As New XmlDocument
  98:         newLayoutXML.PreserveWhitespace = True
  99:         newLayoutXML.LoadXml(newLayout.Untyped.ToString())
 100:  
 101:         CreateSessionResource(resSvc, newLayoutXML, szSessionId, newLayoutResourceID.GetName, MgResourceType.WebLayout)
 102:  
 103:         'our last step is to update the src attribute of the iframe with the information needed to load the newly created layout
 104:         SetupIFrame(newLayoutResourceID, szSessionId)
 105:     End Sub
 106:     Private Sub SetupIFrame(ByVal layoutResId As MgResourceIdentifier, ByVal szSessionID As String)
 107:         'build the URL based on our constants, and the layout + session info
 108:         Dim szUrl As String = gszViewerUrl & "?WEBLAYOUT=" & layoutResId.ToString & "&SESSION=" & szSessionID
 109:  
 110:         'update the iframe
 111:         ifrmViewer.Attributes.Add("src", szUrl)
 112:     End Sub
 113:     ''' <summary>
 114:     ''' Adds a layer group to the passed MapDefinition, and returns the updated MapDefinition Object.
 115:     ''' If desired, additional parameters could be added to this to customize the various other properties
 116:     ''' like ShowInLegend etc        
 117:     ''' </summary>
 118:     ''' <param name="mapDef">The loaded MapDefinition obect</param>
 119:     ''' <param name="szLayerGroupName">The Layer Name of the new layer group</param>
 120:     ''' <param name="szLayerGroupAlias">The Layer Alias of the new layer group</param>
 121:     ''' <returns>the passed MapDefinition, with the new layer group added</returns>
 122:     ''' <remarks></remarks>
 123:     Public Shared Function AddMapLayerGroup(ByVal mapDef As OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.MapDefinition, ByVal szLayerGroupName As String, ByVal szLayerGroupAlias As String) As OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.MapDefinition
 124:         Dim newLayGRoup As New OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.MapLayerGroupType
 125:         newLayGRoup.Name = szLayerGroupName
 126:         newLayGRoup.LegendLabel = szLayerGroupAlias
 127:         newLayGRoup.ShowInLegend = "True"
 128:         newLayGRoup.ExpandInLegend = "True"
 129:         newLayGRoup.Visible = "True"
 130:         newLayGRoup.Group = ""
 131:         mapDef.MapLayerGroup.Add(newLayGRoup)
 132:         Return mapDef
 133:     End Function
 134:  
 135:     ''' <summary>
 136:     ''' Adds all layer definitions within the specified repository folder to the specified map
 137:     ''' </summary>
 138:     ''' <param name="resSvc">An open resource service connection</param>
 139:     ''' <param name="newMap">the MapDefinition object to modify</param>
 140:     ''' <param name="resLocation">The folder in the repository to search for layer objects</param>
 141:     ''' <returns>Update MapDefinition object</returns>
 142:     ''' <remarks></remarks>
 143:     Public Shared Function AddFolderOfLayers(ByRef resSvc As MgResourceService, ByVal newMap As OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.MapDefinition, ByVal resLocation As MgResourceIdentifier, ByVal szLayerGroupName As String) As OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.MapDefinition
 144:         'get the list of layers in the folder
 145:         Dim resList As OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.ResourceList
 146:         'use GetAllResources to get a new resList
 147:         resList = GetAllResources(resSvc, resLocation, 1, MgResourceType.LayerDefinition)
 148:  
 149:         'resList items are pretty much a collection of resrouceDocumentLocalTypes so define one of these to use in the for loop
 150:         Dim resItem As OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.ResourceList.ResourceDocumentLocalType
 151:  
 152:         'define a new layerResID to use in the loop
 153:         Dim layerResID As MgResourceIdentifier
 154:  
 155:         'for each layer - process it and add it to the map
 156:         Dim newLayerType As New OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.MapLayerType
 157:         For Each resItem In resList.ResourceDocument
 158:             layerResID = New MgResourceIdentifier(resItem.ResourceId)
 159:             'for adding a layer to the map - we must use the MapLayerType object 
 160:             newLayerType = New OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.MapLayerType
 161:             newLayerType.ResourceId = layerResID.ToString
 162:             'Be sure to specify the name of the 
 163:             newLayerType.Group = szLayerGroupName
 164:             newLayerType.Name = layerResID.GetName
 165:             newLayerType.Selectable = "false"
 166:             newLayerType.ShowInLegend = "true"
 167:             newLayerType.LegendLabel = layerResID.GetName
 168:             newLayerType.ExpandInLegend = "true"
 169:             newLayerType.Visible = "true"
 170:  
 171:             newMap.MapLayer.Insert(0, newLayerType)
 172:         Next
 173:         'return the updated MapDefinition
 174:         Return newMap
 175:     End Function
 176:  
 177:     'Some handy functions
 178:  
 179:     ''' <summary>
 180:     ''' Saves the specified XMLDocument to the session respository
 181:     ''' </summary>
 182:     ''' <param name="resSvc">The open resource service connection</param>
 183:     ''' <param name="xmlDoc">the XMLDocument to save to the session repository</param>
 184:     ''' <param name="szSessionId">String containing the session ID</param>
 185:     ''' <param name="szName">The name of the newly created object in the repository</param>
 186:     ''' <param name="szResourceType">the object type</param>
 187:     ''' <returns></returns>
 188:     ''' <remarks></remarks>
 189:     Public Shared Function CreateSessionResource(ByRef resSvc As MgResourceService, ByVal xmlDoc As XmlDocument, ByVal szSessionId As String, ByVal szName As String, ByVal szResourceType As String) As MgResourceIdentifier
 190:         Dim byteSource As MgByteSource = getByteSource(xmlDoc)
 191:         Dim resID As New MgResourceIdentifier("Session:" & szSessionId & "//" & szName & "." & szResourceType)
 192:         resSvc.SetResource(resID, byteSource.GetReader, Nothing)
 193:         Return resID
 194:     End Function
 195:  
 196:     ''' <summary>
 197:     ''' Returns an MgByteSource for the passed XMLDocument
 198:     ''' </summary>
 199:     ''' <param name="xmlDoc">The XMLDocument to convert</param>
 200:     ''' <returns>MgByteSource of the XMLDocumnet</returns>
 201:     ''' <remarks></remarks>
 202:     Public Shared Function getByteSource(ByVal xmlDoc As XmlDocument) As MgByteSource
 203:         Dim xmlStream As New IO.MemoryStream
 204:         xmlDoc.Save(xmlStream)
 205:         Dim arrBytes() As Byte = xmlStream.ToArray()
 206:         Dim Enc As Encoding = Encoding.UTF8
 207:         Dim docString As String = New String(Enc.GetChars(arrBytes))
 208:         arrBytes = Nothing
 209:  
 210:         Dim arrOutput(docString.Length - 1) As Byte
 211:         Dim nByteCount As Integer = Enc.GetBytes(docString, 0, docString.Length, arrOutput, 0)
 212:  
 213:         Dim byteSource As New MgByteSource(arrOutput, arrOutput.Length)
 214:         byteSource.SetMimeType(MgMimeType.Xml)
 215:  
 216:         Return byteSource
 217:     End Function
 218:  
 219:     ''' <summary>
 220:     ''' returns a loaded XML document of the specified resourceID
 221:     ''' </summary>
 222:     ''' <param name="resSvc">An open connection to the Mapguide Resource Service</param>
 223:     ''' <param name="resId">The MgResourceID of the entity in question</param>
 224:     ''' <returns>A loaded XMLDocument of the specified resource</returns>
 225:     ''' <remarks></remarks>
 226:     Public Shared Function GetResourceXML(ByRef resSvc As MgResourceService, ByVal resId As MgResourceIdentifier) As XmlDocument
 227:         Dim retDoc As New XmlDocument
 228:         retDoc.PreserveWhitespace = True
 229:  
 230:         Dim szXML As String = resSvc.GetResourceContent(resId).ToString()
 231:         Dim nByteCount As Integer
 232:         Dim arrByte(szXML.Length) As Byte
 233:         nByteCount = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(szXML, 0, szXML.Length, arrByte, 0)
 234:  
 235:         Dim memStream As New IO.MemoryStream(arrByte)
 236:         retDoc.Load(memStream)
 237:         Return retDoc
 238:     End Function
 239:  
 240:  
 241:     ''' <summary>
 242:     ''' Create a new mapguide session and return the resulting session ID
 243:     ''' </summary>
 244:     ''' <param name="szMGUser">Valid mapguide user name</param>
 245:     ''' <param name="szMGPass">Valid password for the specified mapguide user name</param>
 246:     ''' <param name="szMGWebTier">The path to the Mapguide web tier (valid on the mapguide web server</param>
 247:     ''' <returns>MgSiteConnection - the newly created mapguide site connection</returns>
 248:     ''' <remarks></remarks>
 249:     Public Shared Function CreateMGSession(ByVal szMGUser As String, ByVal szMGPass As String, ByVal szMGWebTier As String) As MgSiteConnection
 250:         MapGuideApi.MgInitializeWebTier(szMGWebTier)
 251:         Dim siteConnection As New MgSiteConnection()
 252:         siteConnection.Open(New MgUserInformation(szMGUser, szMGPass))
 253:         Return siteConnection
 254:     End Function
 255:  
 256:     ''' <summary>
 257:     ''' Converts MgReader to XMLDocument
 258:     ''' </summary>
 259:     ''' <param name="byteReader">Loaded MgByteReader</param>
 260:     ''' <returns>Loaded XMLDocument</returns>
 261:     ''' <remarks></remarks>
 262:     Public Shared Function ConvertMgReaderXml(ByVal byteReader As MgByteReader) As XmlDocument
 263:         Dim szXML As String
 264:         Try
 265:             szXML = byteReader.ToString
 266:         Catch ex As Exception
 267:             Throw ex
 268:         End Try
 269:         Dim nByteCount As Integer
 270:         Dim arrByte(szXML.Length) As Byte
 271:         Try
 272:             nByteCount = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(szXML, 0, szXML.Length, arrByte, 0)
 273:         Catch ex As Exception
 274:             Throw ex
 275:         End Try
 276:  
 277:         Dim memStream As New IO.MemoryStream(arrByte)
 278:         Dim retDoc As New XmlDocument
 279:         retDoc.PreserveWhitespace = True
 280:         Try
 281:             retDoc.Load(memStream)
 282:         Catch ex As Exception
 283:             memStream.Close()
 284:             memStream.Dispose()
 285:             Throw ex
 286:         End Try
 287:         memStream.Close()
 288:         memStream.Dispose()
 289:         Return retDoc
 290:     End Function
 291:  
 292:     ''' <summary>
 293:     ''' Gets a ResourceList for each item in the specified repository folder.
 294:     ''' </summary>
 295:     ''' <param name="resSvc">The opened resource server connection</param>
 296:     ''' <param name="resId">The MgResourceId of the folder we want to enumerate</param>
 297:     ''' <param name="nDepth">The folder depth to enumerate.  From the Mapguide Web API Reference:
 298:     ''' (int) Recursion depth, relative to the specified resource.
 299:     '''* If the resource is a document, depth must be set to 0.
 300:     '''* If the resource is a folder:
 301:     '''      o If the depth is equal to 0, only information about the specified folder is returned.
 302:     '''      o If the depth is greater than 0, information about the folder and its descendants up to the specified depth are returned.
 303:     '''* If the depth is -1, information about the folder and all its descendants is returned.
 304:     ''' </param>
 305:     ''' <param name="szType">Again from the Mapguide Web API Reference:
 306:     '''     (String/string) Type of the resource to be enumerated. (Case sensitive.) See MgResourceType  for valid types. If the type is a folder, 
 307:     '''     you must include the trailing slash.
 308:     '''     Or, this can be set to null, in which case information about all resource types is returned
 309:     ''' </param>
 310:     ''' <returns>OSGeo.Mapguide.Objects.ResourceList of resource entities</returns>
 311:     ''' <remarks></remarks>
 312:     Public Shared Function GetAllResources(ByRef resSvc As MgResourceService, ByVal resId As MgResourceIdentifier, ByVal nDepth As Integer, ByVal szType As String) As OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.ResourceList
 313:         Dim retDoc As XmlDocument
 314:         retDoc = ConvertMgReaderXml(resSvc.EnumerateResources(resId, nDepth, szType))
 315:  
 316:         Dim resourceList As New OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.ResourceList
 317:         resourceList = OSGeo.MapGuide.Objects.ResourceList.Parse(retDoc.OuterXml)
 318:         Return resourceList
 319:     End Function
 320: End Class

If you have any questions or comments – feel free to let me know.

]]> http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/05/dynamic-authoring-in-mapguide-enterprise-before-the-viewer-has-loaded/feed/ 11 Creating .NET objects for Mapguide XML schema Definitions (XSD) using LINQ http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/05/creating-net-objects-for-mapguide-xml-schema-definitions-xsd-using-linq/ http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/05/creating-net-objects-for-mapguide-xml-schema-definitions-xsd-using-linq/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 10:18:00 +0000 Darrin Maidlow http://www.geospecialling.com/index.php/2008/05/creating-net-objects-for-mapguide-xml-schema-definitions-xsd-using-linq/ With the release of Mapguide 2007 I was really excited about the new API and the significant power that it would give us developer types.  Though I now appreciate the work involved with creating a full object API for all the supported development platforms, I was a little sad to see that only a handful of objects had been created for working with the various entity types available in Mapguide.

One of my first tasks with Mapguide was to add some layers to the map, before the viewer had loaded up, save that map in the session repository and then build a layout for the map – again in the session repository.  I tried various ways of working with the XML provided by the resource  service, and read through many of the e-mails on the topic from the Osgeo list, but I just couldn’t get it to work.  So I set out on my mission to get an object based method of getting things done.  First, as per the developer documentation I tried out xsd.exe.  XSD allowed me to get a class skeleton created, but there was a lot of work needed to a rounded API running.   I had been recently investigating the new functionality Microsoft was exposing with LINQ – and I came across LINQ to XSD.  For more information on Linq to XSD the is a good place to start. 

So download and install it.  You will need to have installed first.  In addition to that I’m using Visual Studio 2008 Pro.  I have tried these steps with both Mapguide Enterprise 2008 and  2009.  I have to assume the resulting code will work with Mapguide Open Source as well.

Setting up your project

At this point you should be able to fire up Visual Studio and create a new project.  If you are a VB developer, I’m afraid you’re going to have to dive into a bit of C#, as its the only support language right now.  It’s not that bad.

The new project window should look a little like this:

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Choose LINQ to XSD Library and give the project a name.  Once the new project is loaded, create a new folder called XSD.  Browse to your Mapguide 2009/OS 2.0 server Schema folder (on a default installation its c:\Program Files\Autodesk\MapGuideEnterprise2009\Server\Schema).  Take a these files and drag them into the new XSD folder.

Back in Visual Studio, select all of the XSD files.  Look in the property window and change the "Build Action" to be "LinqToXsdSchema".

Building the project

At this point, right click on the project in Visual Studio, and choose build.  You should have 173 errors.  This is caused by having multiple, similar versions of some of the XSDs.  Let’s exclude the following files:

  • FdoProviderCapabilities-1.0.0.xsd
  • LayerDefinition-1.0.0.xsd
  • LayerDefinition-1.1.0.xsd
  • LoadProcedure-1.0.0.xsd
  • SymbolDefinition-1.0.0.xsd

Rebuild the project and we should be down to five errors.  I have found that by excluding the following files I was able to get the code to generate:

  • ApplicationDefinition-1.0.0.xsd
  • ApplicationDefinitionInfo-1.0.0.xsd
  • SymbolLibrary-1.0.0.xsd

 

For my purposes, I was not too concerned about being able to work with these entity types programmatically (at least at this time).  If anyone is able to work around and would like to share it, please let me know.

Build the project again, and we will see three new errors.  This time we will need to dig into the generated code to correct them.  For each of the three errors we will want to change the public string name.  For example:

   1: public string DataType {

 

We would change to:

   1: public string Datatype {

 

Change the case of the property name in each of the three errors and we are just about there.  At this point you should have around 42904 lines of code in this file.  Good thing I didn’t try to do this manually.   Take a copy of all these wonderful lines o’ code, and we’re going to paste them into a new class. For the sake of this example, I renamed class1.cs to be OSGeo.Mapguide.Objects.cs and pasted the code in there.  I also wrapped all the code in a namespace to match the file name.

If you need to find the generated code, take a look in the obj folder within your project.  You should find a file named LinqToXsdSource.cs in the appropriate build folder.

Next we need to prevent the XSDs from rebuilding each time.  Select all of your XSD files again, and change the "Build Action" to "None".    Building the project at this point will generate fifty some odd errors.  We can eliminate these by doing a search and replace on global:: and replacing it with an empty string.  Build the project again, and you will find one error.  Simply remove the "global." from the line in question and the project will now build.

At this point, you should have a nice .dll file which you can reference from your projects and access many of the Mapguide entity types using objects.  Be sure to grab a copy of Microsoft.XmlSchema.Linq.dll and distribute that with your new DLL.

For your convenience, I’ve posted the Project, source and binaries

This project maybe have some issues.  I have worked with LayerDefinitions, MapDefinitions, and WebLayouts – but not tested many of the classes here yet.  If you have any feedback or enhancements you want to share – please let me know!

In the next week I will post some examples on how to build maps and layouts – before the viewer has loaded.

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