Vector events include features and extents. In the case of feature change events, the extents array will include old and new extents for features with modified geometries.w
The goog.events.EventType.CHANGE type is already dispatched because layers are ol.Object instances. To allow people to register for vector layer specific events without also having listeners get called with more general ol.Object change events, we need to give the types unique values.
With symbolizer literals now being geometry type specific, we no
longer need the overhead to query the RTree separately for each
geometry type and render symbolizer groups by geometry type.
The geometry type index of the FeatureCache is no longer needed.
The filtering functionality of the FeatureCache's
getFeaturesObject method can be removed because it is no longer
used.
This way all styles can be defined on the source layer, by
defining a rule with a select renderIntent. It also will make
addition and removal of layers easier while the select control
is active.
Vector layers will now dispatch ol.layer.VectorLayerEventType.ADD and
ol.layer.VectorLayerEventType.REMOVE event types instead of the generic
goog.events.EventType.CHANGE event type.
This will fix a maximum call stack size exceeded javascript error.
This makes the asynchronous and synchronous versions of
readFeatures work with the same data structures, and leaves
projection handling outside the parsers.
With this change, getFeaturesObjectForExtent may return null if
the source does not have data loaded for the provided extent.
A callback can be passed to getFeaturesObjectForExtent to get
notified when the requested data is available.
The canvas vector layer still has the (API candidate) `getFeatures` method that accepts an arbitrary expression (was filter). This, and the `getFeaturesObject` method under it are only used in the tests. The rendering code that was using filters is now calling `layer.getFeaturesObjectForExtent` with an explicit extent and optional geometry type.
To avoid surprises for application developers, this change
creates a new getFeatures method. So it is clear now beforehand
whether features or feature info markup is returned. The result
is now also grouped by layer, so application developers always
have a link between a layer and the feature info it returns.
To make getFeatureInfo return markup for vector layers, this
change also adds a featureInfoFunction property to the vector
layer, which gives developers full control over how features are
rendered to feature info markup.
This change reverts the RTree API back to the original one (i.e.
insert() instead of put(), search() instead of find()), and
creates a new searchReturningObject() method that returns an
object keyed by UIDs.
It also adds missing tests for type restricted search and
searchReturningObject().
