Yaga - Base

About

This is the core system for yaga. It serves the basic classes to handle different webmapping frameworks with one abstraction layer.

This package includes the abstraction class itself, its driven version (Driver) and abstractions for all basic spatial classes, like map, layer point etc.

How to install

This is an npm package on the organization repository yaga you can install this package with npm:

npm install --save @yaga/base

Note: You should not use the base package stand-alone! You should prefer a driven version!

Architecture of yaga

Abstraction to Driver

Options (-Interface)

Every yaga class should be started to implement with its options. The options should always be implemented as single object. Only the following datatypes are allowed for options:

• Boolean
• Number
• String
• Objects of datatypes listed here
• Arrays of datatypes listed here

Especially not allowed are:

• Methods on an options object

In the end it should be possible to make a stringified version of the options and parse them back to the object and get an equal options object.

It should be avoided to add other datatypes to an options object, but it is not disallowed. Maybe you need to have something like a DOM-Element in your parameters. But keep in mind, that you are not able anymore to stringify your options JSON!

Interface

Your interface should always extend your options interface. If you do so, you are able to clone an object simply passing it to your constructor.

This interface have no restriction on methods or datatypes, but you should prefer to use the yaga simple API helpers.

Abstract Class

The abstract class should extends the abstraction class and implements the above described interface.

Driven Class

A driver should implements the above described interface like the abstraction itself, but it should extend the driver class instead of the abstraction class

Abstraction Class

An abstraction class describes a class without implementing it to a given framework, like leaflet.

For example a LatLng element have all abstract methods to calculate with it, but you are not able to show it on a map, because only your webmapping framework does so.

Driver Class

A driven class connect the abstract description with a real functionality (of a framework). Let's take the above explained example of a LatLng class:

The driven version is able to interact with your specified framework, but have also the possibilities of the abstract class.

Yaga simple API

To use your abstractions in a defined way you should make use of the simple API helpers.

It is not so nice to bind a call of these helpers to an object, this is why we prefer to give the object as reference. Note that your reference has to be a derived abstraction, because we need to have an event-emitter.

The origin parameter helps to handle calls from different emitters. For example you change to map center position, maybe your driven class listens on a change position event of your target map. If this change the position within your abstract class again it will loop infinitely. The origin array determines that something has already called a method that changes a value, and will not call again, if it is already in the origin chain.

The simple API helpers serves you this basic methods to handle data in your object:

• getterHelper(target: Abstraction, property: string): any: Returns the value of a given property on a given object.
• setterHelper(target: Abstraction, property: string, value: any, origin?: any[]): Abstraction: Sets a value on a given property of a given object and returns the object again.
• adderHelper(target: Abstraction, property: string, value: any, origin?: any[]): Abstraction: Add a value on a given property array of a given object and returns the object again.
• removerHelper(target: Abstraction, property: string, value: any, origin?: any[]): Abstraction: Removes a value from a given property array of a given object and returns the object again.
• enableHelper(target: Abstraction, property: string, origin?: any[]): Abstraction: Sets a given property to true of a given object and returns the object again.
• disableHelper(target: Abstraction, property: string, origin?: any[]): Abstraction: Sets a given property to false of a given object and returns the object again.

There is also a test-factory module. This module serves an easy to write and extend way of doing software-tests with methods that are conform to the yaga simple api

Yaga in general

Yet another geo application - Geospatial on web with love

A geospatial web application for client- and server-side with components for Angular, Cordova and Node.js.

About this project name

1. Yaga sounds like Draga and I love her!
2. Yaga = Yet another geo application