Easy way to get size of Leaflet LayerGroup?

Question

Is there a straightforward way to get the number of layers in a Leaflet LayerGroup? A quick glance at the documentation says there isn't at the moment.

Answer 1

Updated Answer

Since my first answer, the LayerGroup has been extended with a getLayers() method, making the solution straightforward:

layerGroup.getLayers().length.

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**OLD** REDUNDANT ANSWER:

Looking at the LayerGroup code, you should be able to get the number of layers by layerGroup._layers.length.

But note that _layers by the implementors is intended to be private, so I guess you cannot be sure this will work in future versions.

If you want to stay within the public API, then you could call eachLayer and count the layers.

Answer 2

As Asborn hinted at you can access the maps layer object through any layer event object.

e.g.

map.addEventListener('viewreset', function(event){
    console.log(event.target._layers);
}, false);

to get the length you would need to count the keys and the easiest way is you use ECMA (chrome, node etc)

Object.keys(map._layers).length

I'm surprised there isnt a API to get this info such as

maps.getLayers();

:)

EDIT: actually there is: http://leafletjs.com/reference.html#layergroup

getLayers()

and it returns an array of the layers within that group.