RVectorLayer - change url and refresh layer

[chilli-andrew]

Hi,

I have been trying to plot an area using the RVectorLayer. I can get this to work nicely if the when the map loads for the first time but even after changing the url I am unable to get the refresh to work. So far I have the following working.

Given a coordinate I can load the map
Given a valid url to the wms service layer I can get the RVectorLayer to display
Given the coordinate changes I can get the RMap to reload at the new coordinate using [view, setView]
I can use a ref to the RVectorLayer to clear the existing source
What I haven't managed to work out is what I need to do to trigger the load with the new URL in place. The refresh method on the RVectorLayer is not working for me.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[mmomtchev]

RVectorLayer.refresh() is not a public method and has a different meaning from source.refresh() in OpenLayers.

Reusing a source has practically no performance benefit at all - it would be the same if you removed the layer and added a new one. You can add a key= property an update it every time you change the URL - this way React will recreate this layer.
Maybe I should add this into rlayer too - transparently replacing the source every time the URL changes.

[chilli-andrew]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response. I added a key and that worked perfectly.