[geojquery] Desireable plugin pattern

[Anne Blankert]

  On 7/29/2010 11:30 PM, Volker Mische wrote:
> Best thing is to read the archive, there are so many ways :)
>
> IIRC, my last preferred approach was to have distinction between the 
> map and layers (and perhaps even features). So that you e.g. can bind 
> events to the map, layers and features.
>
> As I always say, we are still in flux, please write code if you've the 
> time to and do it the way you like. It's much better to comment on 
> existing things, rather than discussion vaporware to death.
>
> Cheers,
>   Volker

Where and how shall we start working on plubicly viewable/updatable code in a very flexible manner? The source tree in geojquery still seems to be empty? For a start, there could be a general setup for a JQuery plugin:


(function ($) {

$.fn.pluginname = function (param1, param2, useroptions)
{
	// set default option values and extend with useroptions
	options = $.extend( {
		option1: "defaultvalue1",
		option2: "defaultvalue2",
		option3: "defaultvalue3"
		}, useroptions || {});
}

})(jQuery);


Some decisions already have to be made:
- The name for the plugin, is this the only plugin or will there be many?
- There is a proposition athttp://gitorious.org/geojquery/pages/PluginOverview  where there is a distinction between UI and Core. The Core plugin is a JQuery api-wrapper around OpenLayers or - as I understand it - some other mapping module to be used. The UI plugin provides the actual interactive mapping widgets (in my understanding such widgets could be the map itself, a legend, a scale bar, a layer selector, a layer manager, a coordinate display, a feature info displayer, an overview map, map drawing tools with element type selector, color selector, line type selector, layer creator etc.)

If I understand correctly, the next coding step could be setting up a very simple OpenLayers based map, wrapped in two jquery plugin skeletons (core + ui) such as the one above?

Do you think that this is the way to proceed or should we wait for someone or some group to come up with much bigger code chunks?

Greetz,

Anne