[udig-devel] Axios tools revisited; summary of tool api breakage

[Jody Garnett]

After Jesse's tool clean up I have a couple of categories of compile 
errors I would like to talk to everyone about:

>     @Override
>     protected String getExtensionID() {
>         return "es.axios.udig.ui.editingtools.PolygonTool2"; //$NON-NLS-1$
>     }
This method produces an "must override a superclass method" error - 
simply because getExtentionID is no longer part of the tool api. I 
suspect that this is for two reasons:
- the information was already available in XML; making you specify it 
again in code was only a chance to introduce errors
- by leaving the ID as part of the extension point definition we can 
reuse the same Java class as the implementation for multiple tools in 
the user interface

I cannot find this information right now; I expect if you want it at the 
programming level you will need to provide an "public void 
init(IConfigurationElement element)" method and record the ID for yourself.

> selectGeometryBehaviour.setCreateGeomOnNoneSelect(ShapeType.POLYGON);
This method no longer exists on SelectFeatureBehaviour; I am not quite 
sure what functionality replaces it. If anyone was paying attention when 
Jesse did this work I need some help figuring out what happened.

Jody