[WMS Server] Missing LatLongBoundingBox Warning

[jmckenna@…]

For a WFS Server, when you do a GetCapabilities request on a layer with an
incorrect data path you get the following warning:

*******
- <!--  WARNING: Mandatory LatLongBoundingBox could not be established for this
layer.  Consider setting LAYER.EXTENT or wfs_extent metadata. 
  --> 
*******

For a WMS Server the <LatlongBoundingBox> and <BoundingBox> sections are missing
for the layer in the GetCapabilities, and no warning is displayed.

[jmckenna@…]

related to this, is that the warning message (line 307 in mapwfs.c) makes no
sense to the user - "..Consider setting LAYER.EXTENT.." is wrong, there is no
way to set a layer's extent at that level.  In fact this error message is thrown
even if mapserver cannot locate the data (an incorrect data path for example).

[tomkralidis]

Done in r7719. Committed the same behaviour in mapwms.c and updated warning message (note that this is an optional and not mandatory parameter, per the OGC DTDs and schemas).

I do agree the error message can be misleading somewhat. In the code, I think it's the right warning to print (since it is testing for an extent). There is no checking in the code that the data exists.

Perhaps this should be a check done earlier to see if the data even exists.

Or should we simply extend the warning message to suggest "check that your data exists" type thing.

Comments?

[tomkralidis]

I vote for extending the warning message.

If there's no objections, I will commit and close this one out.

[tomkralidis]

Warning message extended in r7741. Closing.