Improving `RasterLayer` about mesa-geo

[rht]

I haven't been able to find a class name that encompasses those methods, while excluding

torus_adj
neighbor_iter
move_agent
place_agent
_place_agent
remove_agent
is_cell_empty
move_to_empty
find_empty
exists_empty_cells

What would be the consequence for RasterLayer to have those methods? Maybe the *_agent methods can be replaced with methods that raise NotImplementedError?

[wang-boyu]

The main difference between RasterLayer and Gridare:

1. The GridContent in Grid is Cell in RasterLayer. This is fine since GridContent = Union[Agent, None] and Cell inherits Agent.
2. In Grid there is self.grid: list[list[GridContent]] whereas in RasterLayer we have self.cells: list[list[Cell]]. This is a bit troublesome because self.grid is effectively renamed to self.cells.

Another issue is that we do not manipulate agents using RasterLayer directly. Instead, adding/updating/removing agents methods are defined at the GeoSpace level. It might be confusing if we have these methods also defined within RasterLayer and raise NotImplementedError.

I couldn't think of any easier ways to get necessary methods from Grid while avoiding the rest. Was hoping that changes wouldn't happen very often.

On the other hand, I don't want to alter the design of Mesa due to Mesa-Geo either.

[wang-boyu]

Mesa now has an experimental PropertyLayer and could be an alternative implementation for our RasterLayer: projectmesa/mesa#1898

[wang-boyu]

Replaced by #201. Closing this issue now.