Layer name in OpenLayers 3.0

Monday, 4 July 2016

I'm looping through all the layers in my map using

map.getLayers().forEach(function(layer, i) {
   ...
});

I'd like to get the name of each layer but I haven't been able to find anything in the examples or the documentation. Any pointers?

I'm using OpenLayers 3.0.0.

Answer

name is just a property you can set on your layer. All constructor options which are not part of the API [1] are treated as property[2].

You can later get it with layer.get('name') (& set it with layer.set('name', 'foobar'))

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