Um... sorry Jody but I still don't understand. Why have an
implementation at the Layer level rather than an abstract method ?

Michael


On 6 July 2011 19:29, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrea asked the same question ...
> Layer.getStyle() is something that each layer implementation needs to
> provide to spoon feed feature based renderers a style they can chew on. In
> the same manner they get to spoon feed a FeatureSource (even if their
> content is not features). Good times.... this is used to prevent the same
> crazy workarounds appearing in each feature based rendering system
> (StreamingRenderer, KML renderer etc...).
> StyleLayer has getStyle and setStyle; that is the style can be changed; so
> in a sense we are adding one new method (ie setStyle); and overriding
> getStyle so it returns a field value.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Wednesday, 6 July 2011 at 6:42 PM, Michael Bedward wrote:
>
> Hi Jody,
>
> Can you enlighten me on the relationship between the Layer.getStyle
> method, which puts a Style into the user data map, and the
> StyleLayer.getStyle method which returns a sub-class field ?
>
> Michael
>
>

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