initAlgorithm() method
This allows 2 benefits:
- algorithms can be subclassed and have subclasses add additional
parameters/outputs to the algorithm. With the previous approach
of declaring parameters/outputs in the constructor, it's not
possible to call virtual methods to add additional parameters/
outputs (since you can't call virtual methods from a constructor).
- initAlgorithm takes a variant map argument, allowing the algorithm
to dynamically adjust its declared parameters and outputs according
to this configuration map. This potentially allows model algorithms which
can be configured to have variable numbers of parameters and
outputs at run time. E.g. a "router" algorithm which directs
features to one of any number of output sinks depending on some
user configured criteria.
This fixes some design errors (mainly the ModelerUtils class, which is not needed anymore to hold a copy of algs and providers in order to avoid circular dependencies) and removes unused code
