[Mapbender-dev] motion: change attribute "extent" of map

[Uli Rothstein (WhereGroup)]

Hello,

yes, great
+1

Uli

Christoph Baudson schrieb:
> Currently, this is a string containing four comma-separated coordinates.
> This is hard to use, whenever you want to perform an operation on the
> extent, you have to split the string and use parseFloat. There is also
> no way to register an event with the setting of the extent, because it's
> not a function.
> 
> At the development sprint in Hannover Peter and I discussed the
> implementation of a restricted extent. For this, we concluded, using the
> Extent object as attribute (and no longer the string) would be
> necessary. I am changing this in trunk, if this motion passes. The
> changes would include
> 
> (1) The extent attribute is currently *set* by
> 
> map.extent = "a,b,c,d";
> 
> The new version would use this syntax
> 
> map.extent = new Extent(a,b,c,d);
> 
> 
> (2) The extent attribute is currently *read* by
> 
> map.extent
> 
> which is a string "a,b,c,d". The new version would use this syntax
> 
> map.extent.toString();
> 
> and return the same string "a,b,c,d".
> 
> 
> All custom modules would have to use these changes as well, which will
> be important when updating. I'll only change the modules in Mapbender
> trunk.
> 
> Please second this motion and vote.
> 
> Christoph
> 


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