STYLEITEM Javascript

Author

Charles-Éric Bourget

Contact

cbourget at mapgears.com

Author

Alan Boudreault

Contact

aboudreault at mapgears.com

Last Updated

2015-05-21

Introduction

Using STYLEITEM this way makes it possible to style features programmatically rather than with the standard MapServer expressions.

Usage

Simply declare the javascript plugin this way:

MAP
  ...
  LAYER
  ...
    STYLEITEM "javascript://myscript.js" # relative path
    CLASS
    END
  END
END

The path can also be absolute.

MAP
  ...
  LAYER
  ...
    STYLEITEM "javascript:///home/user/myscript.js" # absolute path
    CLASS
    END
  END
END

The javascript plugin has to implement a function named styleitem that will be automatically called. This function has to return one of these two options:

  • a STYLE definition (Plain String)

  • a CLASS definition with one or multiple styles (Plain String)

Note

Features are parsed one at a time and each one makes a call to the javascript plugin. That means the STYLE or CLASS returned is applied to that specific feature only. Therefore, a CLASS block should not contain an EXPRESSION definition and the corresponding LAYER should not contain a CLASSITEM definition.

Note

Declaring an empty CLASS is mandatory

Access to the feature attributes is made through the shape.attributes javascript object.

The following javascript functions are available:

  • alert(str1, str2, …, str)

    print some text in MapServer logs

  • print(str1, str2, …, str)

    print some text in MapServer logs

  • require(path_to_lib1, path_to_lib2, …, path_to_lib)

    include one or more javascript lib

Example 1. Single STYLE definition

This example returns a single STYLE definition …

function styleitem() {
  //Make symbol size 14 or 7
  var size = shape.attributes.NAME.length > 10 ? 14:7;

  var style = "STYLE SIZE " + size + " SYMBOL 'circle'";

  var red = Math.random()*255;
  var green = Math.random()*255;
  var blue = Math.random()*255;
  style += "COLOR " + red + " " + green + " " + blue + " END";

  //Return style to MapServer
  return style;
}

Example 2. CLASS with multiple STYLE definitions

This example returns a single CLASS with multiple STYLE definitions …

function styleitem() {
  var cls = "CLASS";

  //Make symbol size 14 or 7
  var size = shape.attributes.NAME.length > 10 ? 14:7;

  var style1 = "STYLE SIZE " + size + " SYMBOL 'circle'";
  var style2 = "STYLE SIZE " + size + " SYMBOL 'cross'";

  var red = Math.random()*255;
  var green = Math.random()*255;
  var blue = Math.random()*255;
  style1 += "COLOR " + red + " " + green + " " + blue + " END";
  style2 += "COLOR " + red + " " + green + " " + blue + " END";

  cls += " " + style1 + " " + style2 + " END";

  //Return class to MapServer
  return cls;
}

Example 3. Printing logs in MapServer logs

This example prints some javascript logs in MapServer logs.

MAP
  ...
  CONFIG  "MS_ERRORFILE" "/tmp/mapserver.log"
  DEBUG 1
  LAYER
  ...
    STYLEITEM "javascript://myscript.js"
    CLASS
    END
  END
END

function styleitem() {
  //Print some logs in MapServer logs
  alert("Processing feature " + shape.attributes.NAME)

  //Make symbol size 14 or 7
  var size = shape.attributes.NAME.length > 10 ? 14:7;

  var style = "STYLE SIZE " + size + " SYMBOL 'circle'";

  var red = Math.random()*255;
  var green = Math.random()*255;
  var blue = Math.random()*255;
  style += "COLOR " + red + " " + green + " " + blue + " END";

  //Return style to MapServer
  return style;
}