SWIG MapScript Creating a lineObj

[lfilak]

A new lineObj can be created from a bogus symbolObj. Sample in Perl: my $symbol = new mapscript::symbolObj("bogus.sym"); my $line = $symbol->getPoints();

For some unknown reason this is not sufficient enough to create a GEOS polygon, use fromWKT for that.

[havatv]

I don't understand what to do. I close it as invalid. Please reopen and clarify if this is still an issue. Preferably with a suggestion for what to include in the documentation and where.

[lfilak]

After looking through the SWIG Mapscript documentation I did not see any way of creating a new lineObj, so I submitted this bug to hopefully give others direction on how to create a new lineObj. The current documentation does not have a "constructor" section for each object so I do not know where to place the information, but "to create a new lineObj with SWIG mapscript use the getPoints method of a blank symbolObj".

[havatv]

There should be a simple no way to create a line object in swig mapscript. Hopefully there is, and it just needs to be documented. One would expect something like:

new lineObj( ) : lineObj

According to the PHP mapscript documentation you can use the new lineObj(), or ms_newLineObj() to create a line object in PHP.

Adding Steve to the CC-list to get a clarification.

[havatv]

The lineObj constructor seems to be present, so I added it to the mapscript documentation (for trunk and 6.0) in r13304. Closing.