[OpenLayers-Dev] Shouldn't getCenter return a clone?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:54:50PM -0700, mikani wrote:
> 
> Example on how to fix this?  cloning the setCenter.  I've noticed this too
> when I was expected to set it back to the original map

Er, perhaps something in my message was unclear, but "Fixed in SVN" is
now "Fixed in OL 2.8."

-- Chris

> Christopher Schmidt-2 wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:44:06PM -0000, Joao Duarte wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> While I was developing my application, I got a strange behavior while
> >> using
> >> map.getCenter() and map.getExtent().
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> I was calling map.getCenter() and modifying the value I got in return.
> >> Then
> >> the map.getExtent() returned a strange bounding box.
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> After looking at the getCenter method of OpenLayers.Map, I found that
> >> what’s
> >> being returned is this.center directly, instead of a clone.
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> Shouldn’t getCenter return a clone to prevent modifications on the return
> >> value from the user, like for example getSize?
> > 
> > This is fixed in OL SVN. You can workarund this in your application by
> > always .clone()ing the returned setCenter for now, or upgrade to SVN.
> > 
> > -- Chris
> > 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> Best regards,
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> João Duarte
> >> 
> >>  <http://maps.sapo.pt> http://maps.sapo.pt
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> > 
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