Hi, most of the changes are descirbed here,
http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2251 however there should not be any *API* changes, but it seems your usage was the internal structures and not the API right? Best regards, Bart On May 10, 2010, at 8:02 PM, myOpenLayersUName wrote: > > There seems to be some pretty significant differences between the hierarchy > of the context that is returned after the read_wmc_Layer function is run in > OpenLayers 2.8 vs. 2.9. > > In 2.8, there is actually a layer created with params and options attached. > In 2.9, there seems to be only an associative array added to a > "layersContext" object that doesn't have a layer in it at all. > > Can someone point me to some documentation that discusses the changes > between the two versions? Perhaps a mapping chart to tell me where I will > find the pieces of information imported now? For example, in 2.8, a lot of > the layer's Server information was placed in the params object under > layerInfo. In our code, we needed used the Server's title attribute from our > WMCs as well, and extended the Format read to read that title attribute and > append it to the layerInfo.params object as well. Now, it's looking like I'm > just appending title to the layerContext object and I'm uncertain what other > things are found in that object. Is the layer's title already in there? > > Also, how does the layer itself get created now if the Format read isn't > doing so? > > Basically, 2.9 appears so completely different from 2.8, I can't get it to > work for our application anymore and am facing a pretty significant re-write > to adjust. The fact that I can't find anything in any documentation (release > notes even) that mentions that it is happening is a little frightening. > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/OpenLayers-Format-WMC-v1-in-2-8-vs-2-9-tp5032030p5032030.html > Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
