openlayers/lib/OpenLayers/Layer/HTTPRequest.js

/* Copyright (c) 2006 MetaCarta, Inc., published under a modified BSD license.
 * See http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/repository-license.txt 
 * for the full text of the license. */


/**
 * @class
 * 
 * @requires OpenLayers/Layer.js
 */
OpenLayers.Layer.HTTPRequest = OpenLayers.Class.create();
OpenLayers.Layer.HTTPRequest.prototype = 
  OpenLayers.Class.inherit( OpenLayers.Layer, {

    /** @type String */
    url: null,

    /** Hashtable of key/value parameters
     * @type Object */
    params: null,
    
    /** Whether layer should reproject itself based on base layer locations.
     *  This allows reprojection onto commercial layers. Default is false:
     *  Most layers can't reproject, but layers which can create non-square
     *  geographic pixels can, like WMS. 
     *
     * @type Boolean 
     */
    reproject: false,

    /**
     * @constructor
     * 
     * @param {String} name
     * @param {String} url
     * @param {Object} params
     * @param {Object} options Hashtable of extra options to tag onto the layer
     */
    initialize: function(name, url, params, options) {
        var newArguments = arguments;
        newArguments = [name, options];
        OpenLayers.Layer.prototype.initialize.apply(this, newArguments);
        this.url = url;
        this.params = OpenLayers.Util.extend( new Object(), params);
    },

    /**
     * 
     */
    destroy: function() {
        this.url = null;
        this.params = null;
        OpenLayers.Layer.prototype.destroy.apply(this, arguments); 
    },
    
    /**
     * @param {Object} obj
     * 
     * @returns An exact clone of this OpenLayers.Layer.HTTPRequest
     * @type OpenLayers.Layer.HTTPRequest
     */
    clone: function (obj) {
        
        if (obj == null) {
            obj = new OpenLayers.Layer.HTTPRequest(this.name,
                                                   this.url,
                                                   this.params,
                                                   this.options);
        }
        
        //get all additions from superclasses
        obj = OpenLayers.Layer.prototype.clone.apply(this, [obj]);

        // copy/set any non-init, non-simple values here
        
        return obj;
    },

    /** 
     * @param {String} newUrl
     */
    setUrl: function(newUrl) {
        this.url = newUrl;
    },

    /**
     * @param {Object} newParams
     */
    mergeNewParams:function(newParams) {
        this.params = OpenLayers.Util.extend(this.params, newParams);
    },
    

    /** combine url with layer's params and these newParams. 
     *   
     *    does checking on the serverPath variable, allowing for cases when it 
     *     is supplied with trailing ? or &, as well as cases where not. 
     *
     *    return in formatted string like this:
     *        "server?key1=value1&key2=value2&key3=value3"
     * 
     * @param {Object} newParams
     * @param {String} altUrl Use this as the url instead of the layer's url
     * 
     * @type String
     */
    getFullRequestString:function(newParams, altUrl) {
        
        // use layer's url unless altUrl passed in
        var url = (altUrl == null) ? this.url : altUrl;
        
        // if url is not a string, it should be an array of strings, 
        //  in which case we will randomly select one of them in order
        //  to evenly distribute requests to different urls.
        if (typeof url == "object") {
            url = url[Math.floor(Math.random()*url.length)];
        }   
        // requestString always starts with url
        var requestString = url;        

        // create a new params hashtable with all the layer params and the 
        // new params together. then convert to string
        var allParams = OpenLayers.Util.extend(new Object(), this.params);
        allParams = OpenLayers.Util.extend(allParams, newParams);
        // ignore parameters that are already in the url search string
        var urlParams = OpenLayers.Util.upperCaseObject(
                            OpenLayers.Util.getArgs(url));
        for(var key in allParams) {
            if(key.toUpperCase() in urlParams) {
                delete allParams[key];
            }
        }
        var paramsString = OpenLayers.Util.getParameterString(allParams);
        if (paramsString != "") {
            var lastServerChar = url.charAt(url.length - 1);
            if ((lastServerChar == "&") || (lastServerChar == "?")) {
                requestString += paramsString;
            } else {
                if (url.indexOf('?') == -1) {
                    //serverPath has no ? -- add one
                    requestString += '?' + paramsString;
                } else {
                    //serverPath contains ?, so must already have paramsString at the end
                    requestString += '&' + paramsString;
                }
            }
        }
        return requestString;
    },

    /** @final @type String */
    CLASS_NAME: "OpenLayers.Layer.HTTPRequest"
});