MapFish Print: does it support ArcGIS Server?

Question

we are looking for a map print solution, MapFish printing module quite fits. but as far as the searches I've done, it seems MapFish doesn't support ArcGIS Server. One thing I am not sure about is, whether it supports ArcGIS Server WMS or not?

wish someone in this site who knows this can give me some advice. thanks!

Answer 1

I would instead look at the readers. Since WMS and WMTS are supported why not an AGS services which publish one of these protocols?

• GoogleMapReader
• GoogleMapTileReader
• ImageMapReader
• MapServerMapReader
• OsmMapReader
• TileCacheMapReader
• TmsMapReader
• VectorMapReader
• WMSMapReader
• WMTSMapReader

But just to be certain I put a test together. I had to modify config.yaml to add my ArcGIS Server to the hosts:

#==========================
# the list of allowed hosts
#==========================
hosts:
  - !dnsMatch
    host: myags10host
    port: 6080

And I modified the PrintPreview.js (from the GeoExt.ux PrintPreview example) in the following way:

mapPanel = new GeoExt.MapPanel({
    region: "center",
    map: {
        maxExtent: bounds,
        maxResolution: 0.018140625,
        projection: "EPSG:4326",
        units: 'degrees'
    },
    layers: [
    new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS("ESRI WMS Vegas",
        "http://myags10host:6080/arcgis/services/Vegas/DevVegas3857DynamicOnly/MapServer/WMSServer",
        { layers: "3" },
        { singleTile: true, numZoomLevels: 8 })],
    extent: bounds,
    bbar: [{
        text: "Print...",
        handler: showPrintWindow
    }]
});

And it did in fact produce a PDF file:

Answer 2

It does not seem to support it:

mapfish.PrintProtocol.SUPPORTED_TYPES = {
479     'OpenLayers.Layer': mapfish.PrintProtocol.IGNORED,
480     'OpenLayers.Layer.WMS': mapfish.PrintProtocol.prototype.convertWMSLayer,
481     'OpenLayers.Layer.WMS.Untiled': mapfish.PrintProtocol.prototype.convertWMSLayer,
482     'OpenLayers.Layer.TileCache': mapfish.PrintProtocol.prototype.convertTileCacheLayer

http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/browser/trunk/MapFish/client/mfbase/mapfish/core/PrintProtocol.js?rev=1216

But could be added if have the right skills