[OpenLayers-Dev] new WFS layer name

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:36:15AM -0400, Schuyler Erle wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 19:58 -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > So, we have a new vector-based wfs layer. We need to keep the old layer
> > naming the same for backwards compatibility. How do we name the new
> > vector-based WFS layer? 
> >   Layer.WFS.Vector
> >   Layer.VectorWFS
> >   Layer.WFST
> >   Layer.Vector.WFS
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > There is a similar question once we implement a vector-based GeoRSS
> > layer, if ever; This might lead towards a tendancy for Layer.Vector.WFS,
> > Layer.Vector.GeoRSS, etc.
> 
> I'm not super fond of any of these choices. Part of the original design
> of Layer.WFS was intended to make it possible to swap in different
> Feature classes that provided different functionality in the application
> using the data received from the WFS. Is it possible that we can get
> this same effect using provided Feature classes, rather than having to
> name everything awkwardly?

It doubles the code. It's not impossible, just painful.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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