[OpenLayers-Dev] vector behavior ideas

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

Eric and other interested in vector behavior:  Just a quick note to say 
I agree with your thoughts below.  We talked a bit about this on IRC. 
Seems like the simplest thing is to allow for a list of strategies on a 
vector layer.

var layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector2(name, {
     strategies: [
         new OpenLayers.Strategy.BBOX(),
         new OpenLayers.Strategy.Paging()
     ],
     protocol: new OpenLayers.Protocol.Foo(),
     format: new OpenLayers.Format.Bar()
});

Will need to see how it works in practice, but it might be the most 
straightforward solution.

Tim


Tim Schaub wrote:
> Hey-
> 
> I will try to be around for today's meeting time to talk vector behavior 
> ideas.  Hope others with ideas can make it.
> 
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> Tim
> 
> 
> Eric Lemoine wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Below are two ideas for our vector behavior work. For those who aren't
>> aware of that effort, see
>> http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Proposal/VectorBehavior.
>>
>> Strategy - a Strategy object defines behavior related to commit and
>> update of features. In practise I think we'll have strategies that
>> relate to commit and others that relate to update. For example, the
>> current BBOX strategy relates to update. With that in mind, I think
>> it'd make sense to compose strategies. In this way, we could create a
>> strategy object that is composed of a commit strategy and add update
>> strategy.
>>
>> Protocol - I think we need some abstraction to pass filters to
>> protocols' read() method. We have the Filter class hierarchy for
>> exactly this, don't we? The read() method could take as an argument
>> either an object with protocol-specific params or a Filter object. If
>> a filter object is passed the protocol would need to transtate that
>> filter object into its own filtering mechanism. E.g. the WFS protocol
>> would create  OGC Filter Encoding tags.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> Eric
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