[OpenLayers-Users] Setting attributes of a Feature.Vector

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:17:06AM +0200, Andy Dale wrote:
> "An optional object that will be mapped to the
> attributes<http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Feature/Vector-js.html#OpenLayers.Feature.Vector.attributes>property."
> 
> So I attempted to set the second parameter in a varity of ways such as:
> 
> 3) {first: "test", second: 21};

This is the right one.

> 
> I attempt to access the attributes as follows:
> 
> 1) Call Layer.Vector.features
> 2) Iterate over the returned features
> 3) On each feature call Feature.attributes
> 4) Try and access the attributes

This should work.

f = new OpenLayers.Feature.Vector(geometry, {'a':'b'});
alert(f.attributes.a);

Should do the trick. Is it not working for you?

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta