Is it possible to add a icon symbol to a polygon - openlayers-3

Question

I am currently working on a openlayers 3 project and for better visulaizing i need to show both. The Polygon shape(attribute based color) which works great and an icon on the polygon position. I know that the polygon contains multiple coordinates and so its not so easy to define a position for the icon. Now i have some kind of workaround that creates an seperate overlay with the interior Points of the polygon to mark the position of the icons. To make the project more simple i want to combine these two styling. Does anyone know if its possible?
Kind Regards

Answer 1

I presumes that you use a ol.source.serversource for your data.
The trick is to test all your features for being a polygon. If it is, you create a point feature you add to your source.
First create the source and the layer:
var avlVectorSource = new ol.source.ServerVector({
format: new ol.format.GeoJSON(),
loader: function(extent, resolution, projection) {
myLoader(resolution);
}
});
var myLayer = new ol.layer.Vector({
source: myVectorSource,
style: myStyleFunction
});
The layer has a style function to set the right icon.
The main thing is the loader:
var myLoader = function(resolution){
$.ajax({
url: "http://myJsonSource.com",
timeout: 1000,
success: function(response) {
var layerJSONString = $.parseJSON(response);
var newFeatures = [];
j= 0;
var size=layerJSONString.features.length;
for (i = 0; i < size; i++){
var feat = layerJSONString.features[i];
var geom = feat.geometry;
var type = geom.type;
if(type == "Polygon")
{
var poly = new ol.geom.Polygon(geom.coordinates);
var extent = poly.getExtent();
var coord = [];
coord[0] = (extent[2]-extent[0])/2 + extent[0];
coord[1] = (extent[3]-extent[1])/2 + extent[1];
var point = new ol.geom.Point(coord);
newFeatures[j++] = new ol.Feature({
geometry : point,
StyleName : feat.properties.StyleName
});
}
}
avlVectorSource.addFeatures(myVectorSource.readFeatures(response));
avlVectorSource.addFeatures(newFeatures);
},
error: myLoadError
});
}
};
The documentation says that ol.geom.Polygon has a method called getInteriorPoint(). It has but I can get it to work. So I calculate the center point of the extent of the polygon.
I use "StyleName" to set the right icon in my style function.