Layer Class

The Layer class is the base class of all deck.gl layers, and it provides a number of base properties available in all layers.

Static Members

layerName (string, required)

This static property should contain the name of the layer, typically the name of layer's class (it cannot reliably be autodeduced in minified code). It is used as the default Layer id as well as for debugging and profiling.

defaultProps (object, optional)

All deck.gl layers define a defaultProps static member listing their props and default values. Using defaultProps improves both the code readability and performance during layer instance construction. See prop types.

Constructor

new Layer(...props);

Parameters:

• props (object) - Layer properties.

Notes:

• More than one property object can be supplied.
• Property objects will be merged with the same semantics as Object.assign, i.e. props in later objects will overwrite props earlier object.
• Every layer specifies default values for all its props, and these values will be used internally if that prop is not specified by the application in the Layer constructor.

Properties

Basic Properties

id (string, optional)

• Default: the layer class's name.

The id must be unique among all your layers at a given time. It is highly recommended to set id explicitly. If more than one instance of a specific type of layer exist at the same time, they will require different ids for deck.gl to properly distinguish them.

Remarks:

• id is used to match layers between rendering calls. deck.gl requires each layer to have a unique id. A default id is assigned based on layer type, which means if you are using more than one layer of the same type (e.g. two ScatterplotLayers) you need to provide a custom id for at least one of them.
• A layer class' name is defined by the Layer.layerName static member, or inferred from the constructor name (which is not robust in minified code).
• For sublayers (automatically generated by composite layers), a unique "composite layer id" is automatically generated by appending the sub layer's id to the parent layer's id, so there is no risk of id collisions for sublayers, as long as the application's layer names are unique.

data (Iterable | string | Promise | AsyncIterable | object, optional)

• Default: []

deck.gl layers typically expect data to be one of the following types:

• A JavaScript array of data objects.
• An object that implements the iterable protocol, for example Map and Set. Represents a collection of data objects.
• Any non-iterable object that contains a length field. deck.gl will not attempt to interpret its format, but simply call each accessor length times. (See remark below)
• String: an URL pointing to the data source. deck.gl will attempt to fetch the remote content and parse it as JSON. The resulting object is then used as the value of the data prop.
• Promise: the resolved value will be used as the value of the data prop.
• AsyncIterable: an async iterable object that yields data in batches. The default implementation expects each batch to be an array of data objects; one may change this behavior by supplying a custom dataTransform callback.

data.attributes

When using a non-iterable data object, the object may optionally contain a field attributes, if the application wishes to supply binary buffers directly to the layer. This use case is discussed in detail in the performance developer guide.

The keys in data.attributes correspond to the accessor name that the binary should replace, for example getPosition, getColor. See each layer's documentation for available accessor props.

Each value in data.attributes may be one of the following formats:

• luma.gl Buffer instance
• A typed array, which will be used to create a Buffer
• An object containing the following optional fields. For more information, see WebGL vertex attribute API.
  • buffer (Buffer)
  • value (TypedArray)
  • type ("uint8" | "sint8" | "unorm8" | "snorm8" | "uint16" | "sint16" | "unorm16" | "snorm16" | "uint32" | "sint32" | "float32") - A WebGPU-style data type, see VertexFormat.
  • size (number) - the number of elements per vertex attribute.
  • offset (number) - offset of the first vertex attribute into the buffer, in bytes
  • stride (number) - the offset between the beginning of consecutive vertex attributes, in bytes
  • normalized (boolean) - whether data values should be normalized. Note that all color attributes in deck.gl layers are normalized by default.

Remarks

• Some layers may accept alternative data formats. For example, the GeoJsonLayer supports any valid GeoJSON object as data. These exceptions, if any, are documented in each layer's documentation.
• When an iterable value is passed to data, every accessor function receives the current element as the first argument. When a non-iterable value (any object with a length field) is passed to data, the accessor functions are responsible of interpreting the data format. The latter is often used with binary inputs. Read about this in accessors.
• The automatic URL loading support is intended as a convenience for simple use cases. There are many limitations, including control over request parameters and headers, ability to parse non-JSON data, control of post-processing, CORS support etc. In such cases, it is always possible to load data using traditional JavaScript techniques and rerender the layer with the resulting data array.
• For Layer writers: Even though applications can pass in url string as data props, deck.gl makes sure that the layers never see data props containing String values. Layers will only see the default empty array value for the data prop until the data is loaded, at which point it will be updated with the loaded array.

visible (boolean, optional)

• Default: true

Whether the layer is visible. Under most circumstances, using visible prop to control the visibility of layers are recommended over doing conditional rendering. Compare:

const layers = [
  new MyLayer({data: ..., visible: showMyLayer})
];

with

const layers = [];
if (showMyLayer) {
  layers.push(new MyLayer({data: ...}));
}

In the second example (conditional rendering) the layer state will be destroyed and regenerated every time the showMyLayer flag changes.

opacity (number, optional)

• Default: 1

The opacity of the layer.

Remarks:

• deck.gl automatically applies gamma to the opacity in an attempt to make opacity changes appear linear (i.e. the perceived opacity is visually proportional to the value of the prop).
• While it is a recommended convention that all deck.gl layers should support the opacity prop, it is up to each layer's fragment shader to properly implement support for opacity.

extensions (LayerExtension[], optional)

Add additional functionalities to this layer. See the list of available extensions.

onError (Function, optional)

Called when this layer encounters an error, with the following arguments:

• error - a JavaScript Error object.

If this callback is supplied and returns true, the error is marked as handled and will not bubble up to the onError callback of the Deck instance.

Interaction Properties

Layers can be interacted with using these properties.

pickable (boolean, optional)

• Default: false

Whether the layer responds to mouse pointer picking events.

onHover (Function, optional)

This callback will be called when the mouse enters/leaves an object of this deck.gl layer with the following parameters:

• info
• event - the source event

If this callback returns a truthy value, the hover event is marked as handled and will not bubble up to the onHover callback of the DeckGL canvas.

Requires pickable to be true.

onClick (Function, optional)

This callback will be called when the mouse clicks over an object of this deck.gl layer with the following parameters:

• info
• event - the source event

If this callback returns a truthy value, the click event is marked as handled and will not bubble up to the onClick callback of the DeckGL canvas.

Requires pickable to be true.

onDragStart (Function, optional)

This callback will be called when the mouse starts dragging an object of this deck.gl layer with the following parameters:

• info
• event - the source event

If this callback returns a truthy value, the dragstart event is marked as handled and will not bubble up to the onDragStart callback of the DeckGL canvas.

Requires pickable to be true.

onDrag (Function, optional)

This callback will be called when the mouse drags an object of this deck.gl layer with the following parameters:

• info
• event - the source event

If this callback returns a truthy value, the drag event is marked as handled and will not bubble up to the onDrag callback of the DeckGL canvas.

Requires pickable to be true.

onDragEnd (Function, optional)

This callback will be called when the mouse releases an object of this deck.gl layer with the following parameters:

• info
• event - the source event

If this callback returns a truthy value, the dragend event is marked as handled and will not bubble up to the onDragEnd callback of the DeckGL canvas.

Requires pickable to be true.

highlightColor (Color | Function, optional)

• Default: [0, 0, 128, 128]

RGBA color to blend with the highlighted object (either the hovered over object if autoHighlight: true, or the object at the index specified by highlightedObjectIndex). When the value is a 3 component (RGB) array, a default alpha of 255 is applied.

• If an array is supplied, it is used for the object that is currently highlighted.
• If a function is supplied, it is called with a pickingInfo object when the hovered object changes. The return value is used as the highlight color for the picked object. Only works with autoHighlight: true.

highlightedObjectIndex (number | null, optional)

• Default: null

The index of the object in data to highlight. If specified, overrides the effect of autoHighlight.

When set to an integer that corresponds to an object, the object will be highlighted with highlightColor. When set to an integer that does not correspond to an object (e.g. -1), nothing is highlighted.

autoHighlight (boolean, optional)

• Default: false

When true, current object pointed by mouse pointer (when hovered over) is highlighted with highlightColor.

Requires pickable to be true.

Coordinate System Properties

Normally only used when the application wants to work with coordinates that are not Web Mercator projected longitudes/latitudes.

coordinateSystem (number, optional)

• Default: COORDINATE_SYSTEM.DEFAULT

Specifies how layer positions and offsets should be geographically interpreted. One of:

• COORDINATE_SYSTEM.CARTESIAN
• COORDINATE_SYSTEM.LNGLAT
• COORDINATE_SYSTEM.METER_OFFSETS
• COORDINATE_SYSTEM.LNGLAT_OFFSETS

The default is to interpret positions as latitude and longitude, however it is also possible to interpret positions as meter offsets added to projection center specified by the coordinateOrigin prop.

See the article on Coordinate Systems for details.

coordinateOrigin (number[3], optional)

• Default: [0, 0, 0]

Specifies a reference point for coordinates that are expressed as offsets. Used when the coordinateSystem is set to one of the following modes:

• COORDINATE_SYSTEM.CARTESIAN (optional)
• COORDINATE_SYSTEM.METER_OFFSETS (required)
• COORDINATE_SYSTEM.LNGLAT_OFFSETS (required)

See the article on Coordinate Systems for details.

wrapLongitude (boolean, optional)

• Default: false

Normalizes geometry longitudes. Only works with the LNGLAT coordinate system.

When enabled on PathLayer, PolygonLayer and GeoJsonLayer, the paths/polygons are interpretted such that the connection between any two neighboring vertices is drawn on the shorter side of the world, and split into two if it crosses the 180th meridian. Note that this introduces CPU overhead at runtime. When working with static data, it is recommend that you preprocess the features offline instead of using this option.

When enabled on layers with position pairs, such as LineLayer and ArcLayer, they will draw the shortest path between source and target positions. If the shortest path crosses the 180th meridian, it is split into two segments.

When enabled on other layers, the effect is applied by moving the anchor point into the [-180, 180] range.

modelMatrix (number[16], optional)

An optional 4x4 matrix that is multiplied into the affine projection matrices used by shader project GLSL function and the Viewport's project and unproject JavaScript function.

Allows local coordinate system transformations to be applied to a layer, which is useful when composing data from multiple sources that use different coordinate systems.

Note that the matrix projection is applied after the non-linear mercator projection calculations are resolved, so be careful when using model matrices with longitude/latitude encoded coordinates. They normally work best with non-mercator viewports or meter offset based mercator layers.

Data Properties

There are a number of additional properties that provide extra control over data iteration, comparison and update.

dataComparator (Function, optional)

This prop causes the data prop to be compared using a custom comparison function. The comparison function is called with the old data and the new data objects, and is expected to return true if they compare equally.

Used to override the default shallow comparison of the data object.

As an illustration, the app could set this to e.g. 'lodash.isequal', enabling deep comparison of the data structure. This particular examples would obviously have considerable performance impact and should only be used as a temporary solution for small data sets until the application can be refactored to avoid the need.

The function receives two arguments:

• newData - the new data prop
• oldData - the data prop before the update

And should return true if the two values are considered equal (no update needed), or false if the data has changed.

dataTransform (Function, optional)

Executed to manipulate remote data when it's fetched. This callback applies when data is assigned a value that is either string (URL), Promise or an async iterable.

The function receives two arguments:

• data - the newly fetched data
• previousData - (only available when data is an async iterable) the previously loaded data. If dataTransform is not supplied, the new data chunk is appended to the previous data array.

And must return a valid data object: an array, an iterable or a non-iterable object that contains a length field. See documentation of the data prop for details.

_dataDiff (Function, optional) Experimental

This function is called when the data changes, either shallowly when dataComparator is not supplied or because dataComparator returns false, to retrieve the indices of the changed objects. By default, when data changes, the attributes of all objects are recalculated. If this prop is supplied, only the attributes of the specified objects will be updated. This can lead to significant performance improvement if a few rows in a large data table need to change frequently:

let data: DataType[] = [...];

function updateData(index: number, item: DataType) {
  // make a shallow copy
  data = data.slice();
  data[index] = item;
  const layers = [
    new ScatterplotLayer<DataType>({
      data,
      // Only update the attributes at `index``
      _dataDiff: (newData: DataType[], oldData: DataType[]) => [{startRow: index, endRow: index + 1}],
      // ...
    })
  ];
  deckInstance.setProps({layers});
}

The function receives two arguments:

• newData - the new data prop
• oldData - the data prop before the update

And is expected to return an array of "ranges", in the form of {startRow, endRow}:

• startRow (number) - the beginning index of a changed chunk in the new data.
• endRow (number) - the end index of a changed chunk in the new data (excluded).

This feature is experimental and intended for advanced use cases. Note that it only rewrites part of a buffer, not remove or insert, therefore the user of this prop is responsible of making sure that all the unchanged objects remain at the same indices between oldData and newData. This becomes trickier when dealing with data of dynamic lengths, for example PathLayer, PolygonLayer and GeoJsonLayer. Generally speaking, it is not recommended to use this feature when the count of vertices in the paths/polygons may change.

positionFormat ("XYZ"|"XY", optional)

The format of positions. This prop is currently only effective in PathLayer, SolidPolygonLayer and PolygonLayer.

Default 'XYZ'.

colorFormat ("RGBA"|"RGB", optional)

The format of colors. Setting it to 'RGB' will make the layer ignore the alpha channel of the colors returned by accessors, and instead assume all objects to be opaque. The layer's overall transparency controlled by opacity is still applied.

Default 'RGBA'.

numInstances (number, optional)

deck.gl automatically derives the number of drawing instances from the data prop by counting the number of objects in data. However, the developer might want to manually override it using this prop.

updateTriggers (object, optional)

Accessors such as getColor and getPosition are called to retrieve colors and positions when a layer is first added. From then on, to maximize performance, deck.gl does not recalculate colors or positions unless the data prop changes by shallow comparison.

Sometimes data remains the same, but the outcome of an accessor has changed. In the following example, this is caused by changes in the external values maleColor and femaleColor:

TypeScript

import {Deck, Color} from '@deck.gl/core';
import {ScatterplotLayer} from '@deck.gl/layers';

type DataType = {
  position: [x: number, y: number];
  gender: 'M'|'F';
};
const data: DataType[] = [...];
const deckInstance = new Deck({...});

function render({maleColor, femaleColor}: {
  maleColor: Color;
  femaleColor: Color;
}) {
  const layers = [
    new ScatterplotLayer<DataType>({
      getPosition: (d: DataType) => d.position;
      getFillColor: (d: DataType) => d.gender === 'M' ? maleColor : femaleColor
    })
  ];

  deckInstance.setProps({layers});
}

In this case, you need to explicitly inform deck.gl to re-evaluate getFillColor for all data items. You do so by defining updateTriggers:

function render({maleColor, femaleColor}: {
  maleColor: Color;
  femaleColor: Color;
}) {
  const layers = [
    new ScatterplotLayer<DataType>({
      getPosition: (d: DataType) => d.position;
      getFillColor: (d: DataType) => d.gender === 'M' ? maleColor : femaleColor,
      // getFillColor should be re-evaluated when something in [maleColor, femaleColor] changes
      updateTriggers: {
        getFillColor: [maleColor, femaleColor]
      }
    })
  ];

  deckInstance.setProps({layers});
}

React

import React from 'react';
import DeckGL from '@deck.gl/react';
import {Color} from '@deck.gl/core';
import {ScatterplotLayer} from '@deck.gl/layers';

type DataType = {
  position: [x: number, y: number];
  gender: 'M'|'F';
};
const data: DataType[] = [...];
const deckInstance = new Deck({...});

function App({maleColor, femaleColor}: {
  maleColor: Color;
  femaleColor: Color;
}) {
  const layers = [
    new ScatterplotLayer<DataType>({
      getPosition: (d: DataType) => d.position;
      getFillColor: (d: DataType) => d.gender === 'M' ? maleColor : femaleColor
    })
  ];

  return <DeckGL
    // ...
    layers={layers}
  />;
}

In this case, you need to explicitly inform deck.gl to re-evaluate getFillColor for all data items. You do so by defining updateTriggers:

function App({maleColor, femaleColor}: {
  maleColor: Color;
  femaleColor: Color;
}) {
  const layers = [
    new ScatterplotLayer<DataType>({
      getPosition: (d: DataType) => d.position;
      getFillColor: (d: DataType) => d.gender === 'M' ? maleColor : femaleColor,
      // getFillColor should be re-evaluated when something in [maleColor, femaleColor] changes
      updateTriggers: {
        getFillColor: [maleColor, femaleColor]
      }
    })
  ];

  return <DeckGL
    // ...
    layers={layers}
  />;
}

updateTriggers expect an object whose keys are names of accessor props of this layer, and values are one or more variables that affect the output of the accessors.

For example, updateTriggers.getFillColor is a list of variables that affect the output of getFillColor. If either value in the array changes, all attributes that depend on getFillColor will be updated. The variables may be numbers, strings, objects or functions. During each rendering cycle, deck.gl shallow-compares them with the previous values.

Note:

• change of the data prop has higher priority than the updateTriggers. If the app supplies a new data object, then all attributes will be automatically updated, even if the updateTriggers have not changed. To block excessive attribute updates, set the dataComparator prop.

loaders (Loader[], optional)

• Default: []

An array of loaders.gl loaders.

Out of the box, deck.gl supports loading JSON and image files (with ImageLoader), and specific layer implementation such as MVTLayer, TerrainLayer and ScenegraphLayer also include loaders for their targeted formats.

Support for addtional formats can be added by adding loaders to the loaders prop. For example, to load data from CSV files:

import {CSVLoader} from '@loaders.gl/csv';

const layer = new HexagonLayer({
  data: './data.csv',
  loaders: [CSVLoader]
  ...
});

loadOptions (object, optional)

• Default: null

Layers use loaders.gl to load data and other resources. loadOptions is an object to customize the behavior of any loader used during fetching and parsing. The object may contain any of the top-level options, as well as loader-specific options targeting a particular format.

Layers may also include specialized loaders for their own use case, such as images, 3d-tiles, etc. See the documentation of each layer for additional load options that are available.

Find usage examples in the data loading guide.

fetch (Function, optional)

Called to fetch and parse content from URLs.

The function receives the following arguments:

• url (string) - the URL to fetch
• context (object)
  • layer (Layer) - the current layer
  • propName (string) - the name of the prop that is making the request
  • loaders (Loader[]) - an array of loaders.gl loaders to parse this request with, default to props.loaders.
  • loadOptions (object) - loader options for this request, default to props.loadOptions.
  • signal (AbortSignal?) - the signal to abort the request

The function is expected to return a Promise that resolves to loaded data.

• Default: load(url, loaders, loadOptions)

onDataLoad (Function, optional)

Called when remote data is fully loaded. This callback applies when data is assigned a value that is either string (URL), Promise or an async iterable.

The function receives two arguments:

• value - the loaded data
• context (object)
  • layer - the current layer

Render Properties

parameters (object, optional)

The parameters allows applications to specify values for GPU parameters such as blending mode, depth testing etc. Any parameters will be applied temporarily while rendering this layer only.

Please refer to the luma.gl GPU Parameters documentation on supported parameters and values.

getPolygonOffset (Function, optional)

• Default: ({layerIndex}) => [0, -layerIndex * 100]

When multiple layers are rendered on the same plane, z-fighting may create undesirable artifacts. To improve the visual quality of composition, deck.gl allows layers to use gl.polygonOffset to apply an offset to its depth. By default, each layer is offset a small amount by its index so that layers are cleanly stacked from bottom to top.

This accessor takes a single parameter uniform - an object that contains the current render uniforms, and returns an array of two numbers factor and units. Negative values pull layer towards the camera, and positive values push layer away from the camera. For more information, refer to the documentation and FAQ.

If the accessor is assigned a falsy value, polygon offset will be set to [0, 0].

Remarks:

• While this feature helps mitigate z-fighting, at close up zoom levels the issue might return because of the precision error of 32-bit projection matrices. Try set the fp64 prop to true in this case.

transitions (object, optional)

• Default: {}

When a layer prop updates, if the transitions prop is configured, the prop value may animate smoothly from the old value to the new value. Animation parameters are defined per prop by using the prop names as keys:

new ScatterplotLayer({
  // ...
  transitions: {
    getPosition: 600,
    getFillColor: {
      duration: 300,
      easing: d3.easeCubicInOut,
      enter: ([r, g, b]) => [r, g, b, 0] // fade in
    },
    radiusScale: {
      type: 'spring',
      stiffness: 0.01,
      damping: 0.15
    }
  }
});

Each prop name is mapped to a number or an object that is the transition setting. As a shorthand, if a prop name maps to a number, then the number is assigned to the duration parameter with an interpolation type transition. If an object is supplied, it may contain the following fields:

Key	Type	Default	Description
type	string	'interpolation'	Type of the transition, currently supports 'interpolation' and 'spring'
enter	Function	value => value	Callback to get the value that the entering vertices are transitioning from. See attribute backfilling
onStart	Function	null	Callback when the transition is started
onEnd	Function	null	Callback when the transition is done
onInterrupt	Function	null	Callback when the transition is interrupted

• Additional fields for type: 'interpolation':

  Key	Type	Default	Description
  duration	Number	0	Duration of the transition animation, in milliseconds
  easing	(t: number) => number	t => t	Easing function that maps a value from [0, 1] to [0, 1], see http://easings.net/

• Additional fields for type: 'spring':

  Key	Type	Default	Description
  stiffness	Number	0.05	"Tension" factor for the spring
  damping	Number	0.5	"Friction" factor that counteracts the spring's acceleration

The Animations and Transitions developer guide provides a deeper dive into the behavior and performance considerations of this feature.

Members

Layer members are designed to support the creation of new layers or layer sub-classing and are NOT intended to be used by applications.

context (object)

The context object stores information that are shared by all layers.

• gl (WebGL2RenderingContext) - WebGL context of the current canvas.
• viewport (Viewport) - The current viewport
• deck (Deck) - The current deck.gl instance

state (object)

The state object allows a layer to store persistent information cross rendering cycles.

• attributeManager (AttributeManager) - The attribute manager of this layer.

props (object)

Properties of this layer.

isLoaded (boolean)

true if all asynchronous assets are loaded.

parent (Layer | null)

A Layer instance if this layer is rendered by a CompositeLayer

Methods

Layer methods are designed to support the creation of new layers or layer sub-classing and are NOT intended to be called by applications.

General Methods

clone

const updatedLayer = layer.clone(overrideProps);

Create a copy of this layer, optionally change some prop values.

Arguments:

• overrideProps (object, optional) - layer props to update.

setState

Used to update the layers state object. Calling this method will also cause the layer to rerender.

setModuleParameters

Used to update the settings of shader modules.

raiseError

Used to propagate errors thrown in layers to the deck.gl error handling system. This prevents rendering from being interrupted by exceptions in layers.

raiseError(error, message)

• error (Error) - a JavaScript Error object
• message (string, optional) - additional contextual description to amend the error message with

Layer Lifecycle Methods

For more information about when these methods are called, see layer lifecycle.

initializeState

This method is called only once for each layer to set up the initial state.

initializeState(context)

• context - The layer context is supplied as a parameter
  • context.gl (WebGL2RenderingContext) - gl context
  • ...

deck.gl will already have created the state object at this time, and added the gl context and the attributeManager state.

shouldUpdateState

Called during each rendering cycle when layer properties or context has been updated and before layers are drawn.

shouldUpdateState({props, oldProps, context, changeFlags})

Parameters:

• props (object) - Layer properties from the current rendering cycle.
• oldProps (object) - Layer properties from the previous rendering cycle.
• context (object) - Layer context from the current rendering cycle.
• changeFlags:
  • an object that contains the following boolean flags:
  • dataChanged, propsChanged, viewportChanged, somethingChanged, propsOrDataChanged, stateChanged, updateTriggersChanged

Returns:

• true this layer needs to be updated.

Remarks:

• Prop change is determined by shallow comparison.
• Data change is determined by shallow comparison of props.data unless dataComparator is supplied.
• The default implementation returns true if any change has been detected in data or props, but ignores viewport changes.

updateState

Called when a layer needs to be updated.

updateState({props, oldProps, context, changeFlags})

Parameters:

• props (object) - Layer properties from the current rendering cycle.
• oldProps (object) - Layer properties from the previous rendering cycle.
• context (object) - Layer context from the current rendering cycle.
• changeFlags:
  • an object that contains the following boolean flags:
  • dataChanged, propsChanged, viewportChanged, somethingChanged, propsOrDataChanged, stateChanged, updateTriggersChanged

The default implementation will invalidate all attributeManager attributes if the data prop has changed.

draw

Called on a layer to render to the WebGL canvas.

draw({moduleParameters, uniforms, ..., context})

Parameters:

• uniforms:

• an object that contains all the default unforms to be passed to the shaders.

• context - The layer context is supplied as a parameter

  • context.gl (WebGL2RenderingContext) - gl context
  • ...

The default implementation looks for a variable model in the layer's state (which is expected to be an instance of the luma.gl Model class) and calls draw on that model with the parameters.

getPickingInfo

Called when a layer is being hovered or clicked, before any user callbacks are called. The layer can override or add additional fields to the info object that will be passed to the callbacks.

Parameters:

• pickParams (object)

  • pickParams.info (object) - The current info object. By default it contains the following fields:

    • x (number) - Mouse position x relative to the viewport.
    • y (number) - Mouse position y relative to the viewport.
    • coordinate (number[2]) - Mouse position in world coordinates. Only applies if coordinateSystem is COORDINATE_SYSTEM.LNGLAT.
    • color (number[4]) - The color of the pixel that is being picked. It represents a "picking color" that is encoded by layer.encodePickingColor().
    • index (number) - The index of the object that is being picked. It is the returned value of layer.decodePickingColor().
    • picked (boolean) - true if index is not -1.

  • pickParams.mode (string) - One of hover and click

Returns:

• An info object with optional fields about what was picked. This object will be passed to the layer's onHover or onClick callbacks.
• null, if the corresponding event should cancelled with no callback functions called.

The default implementation populates the info.object field with the info.index element from the layer's data prop.

finalizeState

This method is called before the layer is being removed. A layer should release all resources created during its life span.

Layer Projection Methods

While most projection is handled "automatically" in the layers vertex shader, it is occasionally useful to be able to work in the projected coordinates in JavaScript while calculating uniforms etc.

project

Projects a map coordinate to screen coordinate, using the current viewport settings and the current coordinate system.

Parameters:

• coordinates (number[]) - [x, y, z] in this layer's coordinate system.

Returns:

• A screen coordinates array [x, y] or [x, y, z] if an altitude was given.

unproject

Unprojects a screen coordinate using the current viewport settings.

Parameters:

• pixels (number[]) - [x, y, z] Passing a z is optional.

Returns:

• A map coordinates array [lng, lat] or [lng, lat, altitude] if a z was given.

projectPosition

Projects a map coordinate to world coordinate using the current viewport settings and the current coordinate system. Can be useful to calculate world space angle and distances.

Parameters:

• coordinates (number[]) - [x, y, z] in this layer's coordinate system.
• params (object, optional) - Projection parameters override. It accepts the following fields:
  • viewport (Viewport) - defaults to this.context.viewport.
  • modelMatrix (Matrix4) - defaults to this.props.modelMatrix.
  • coordinateOrigin (number[3]) - defaults to this.props.coordinateOrigin.
  • coordinateSystem (number) - defaults to this.props.coordinateSystem.
  • fromCoordinateOrigin (number[3]) - defaults to passed coordinateOrigin.
  • fromCoordinateSystem (number) - defaults to passed coordinateSystem.

Returns:

• World coordinates in [x, y].

Layer Picking Methods

For the usage of these methods, see how picking works.

decodePickingColor

Converts a color to a "sub-feature index" number. This color is encoded by the layer.encodePickingColor() method.

Parameters:

• color (Uint8Array) - The color to be decoded in [r, g, b].

Returns:

• A number representing the index of the feature. The null picking color (See Layer.nullPickingColor) will be decoded as -1.

Note:

• The null picking color is returned when a pixel is picked that is not covered by the layer, or when the layer has selected to render a pixel using the null picking color to make it unpickable.

encodePickingColor

Converts a "sub-feature index" number to a color. This color can later be decoded by the layer.decodePickingColor() method.

Parameters:

• index (Integer) - The index to be encoded.

Returns:

• An array of [r, g, b].

To get a color that does not correspond to any sub-feature, use layer.nullPickingColor().

Notes:

• indices to be encoded must be integers larger than or equal to 0.
• Picking colors are 24 bit values and can thus encode up to 16 million indices.

nullPickingColor

Returns:

• a "null" picking color which is equal the color of pixels not covered by the layer. This color is guaranteed not to match any index value greater than or equal to zero.

Source

modules/core/src/lib/layer.ts