CodingStyle

Coding conventions in use with MapServer

MapServer uses mostly K&R code styling with the following changes:

• 2 space indenting (no tabs)
• case entries inside a switch are indented as so:

  switch(layertype) {
    case MS_LAYER_POINT:
      if(ogrGeomPoints(hGeom, outshp) == -1) {
        nStatus = MS_FAILURE; // Error message already produced.
      }
      break;
    case MS_LAYER_LINE:
      if(ogrGeomLine(hGeom, outshp, MS_FALSE) == -1) {
        nStatus = MS_FAILURE; // Error message already produced.
      }
      break;
    default:
  }

For release 6.2, the MapServer team has decided that:

• the existing code will be re-formatted to respect the chosen coding style
• all future changes to the codebase should aim at respecting the chosen coding style

Artistic Style (astyle)

Artistic Style (astyle) is a source code formatting tool, and allows for flexible definitions (spaces, padding, indents, one liners, etc.) to automatically format source code for a given coding convention.

Here is the invocation used to re-format the existing codebase:

$ astyle --style=kr --indent=spaces=2 -c --lineend=linux -S [files]