A pure Python MapFile parser for working with MapServer

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A pure Python MapFile parser for working with MapServer, built using Lark

An online formatter demonstrating the libraries capabilities can be found at: http://mappyfile.geographika.net/

A presentation on mappyfile was given at FOSS4G Europe 2017 - slides are available for download here.

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Requirements

  • Python 2.7 or Python 3.x

Installation

mappyfile is available on PyPI (Python Package Index), and can be installed using pip:

pip install mappyfile

This will also install its required dependences Lark (lark-parser), and jsonschema.

Documentation

Documentation at http://mappyfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Usage

import mappyfile

mapfile = mappyfile.load("./docs/examples/raster.map")

# update the map name
mapfile["name"] = "MyNewMap"

new_layer_string = """
LAYER
    NAME 'land'
    TYPE POLYGON
    DATA '../data/vector/naturalearth/ne_110m_land'
    CLASS
        STYLE
            COLOR 107 208 107
            OUTLINECOLOR 2 2 2
            WIDTH 1
        END
    END
END
"""

new_layer = mappyfile.loads(new_layer_string)
layers.insert(0, new_layer) # can insert the new layer at any index

print(mappyfile.dumps(mapfile))

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