Re: [udig-devel] Why are the basic commands "internal"?

[Jesse Eichar <jeichar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are Command factories that you can use to create the "basic 
commands"  See EditCommandFactory, NavigationCommandFactory, 
BasicCommandFactory and SelectionCommandFactory.

Jesse

Adrian Custer wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I am puzzled as to why there is not a core set of simple "commands"
> which are available in the general API. 
>
> The docs (The SDK programmers' guide) says commands are "the only
> acceptable way of modifying the data model." The docs also says that
> "command authors" (I take this to mean those writing new commands) can
> access the interal API. However, the FAQ "how to create a map
> programmatically" suggests using the CreateMapCommand, which is in 
>   net.refractions.udig.project.internal.commands
> so it seems that all developers are expected to access the `internal'
> API. 
>
> 1) Are developers expected to access "interal" API in order to use the
> already existing Commands or are we expected to write all our own
> commands from scratch duplicating the existing core commands?
>
> 2) If the former, why not group the core simple commands into a
> non-`internal' API?
>
> thanks,
> --adrian
>
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